Today when I am doing cleaning for the azure resources that I don’t need it to reduce the cost, I tried to remove Resource Group contain Recovery Service vault Services but it gives me error

Failed to delete resource group prodresouorcegroup: Deletion of resource group ‘prodresouorcegroup’ failed as resources with identifiers ‘Microsoft.RecoveryServices/vaults/elmasryvmbackupvault1’ could not be deleted

Then when I tried to remove the recovery services vault it gives me another error

Vault cannot be deleted as there are existing resources within the vault. Please ensure there are no backup items, protected servers or backup management servers associated with this vault. Unregister the following containers associated with this vault before proceeding for deletion. For instructions, see https://aka.ms/AB-AA4ecq5

After some Google Search I know the correct steps for deleting Azure Recovery services vault

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How to create a SQL Database in Azure

(A Step by step procedure)

I am writing this blog and explaining how to create a database in Azure. As we know that Azure is a cloud computing service provided by Microsoft and is becoming popular in the world. As a DBA we need to know how to work in a cloud computing environment and therefore for the ease I providing a step by step solution for creating a database in Azure.

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Explanation:

First of all we need to login to Azure portal and need to check for SQL Database options as it will be on the left hand side as given in picture below.

SQL Database Options

As soon as we click on SQL database option, a new windows will open up as given in picture below:

Here we can see in this picture that there is no database available. Now we have to create a new database and for that we need to click on Add button on the top as shown in picture.

As we click on add button so it will display a new windows which requires the information to fill in to create a database.

Here we need to provide the information as database name, subscription, resource group (if existing then use that and no need to create a new resource group for each database), another option here elastic pool which is already discussed in my previous blog , go through if not read

https://mirzahusain.wordpress.com/2018/08/06/sql-database-as-a-service-in-azure/

As this is a test database which I have created so not using elastic pool and simple creating a standalone single database in Azure. Rest settings pricing and collation we need to set here as per our requirements or choose default.

One more thing which is important that is location we need to choose as I have chosen East US , you may choose as per your company requirement and policies, for the test purpose you may choose any location and just try and hit.

Check and fill all the option carefully as shown in the above picture and then hit the create button.

The deployment will start to create the database. I have created here the database named as “MirzaDB”. You would be getting the alert in the alert section as soon as deployment succeeded.