SQL - Backup to URL (SQL on Azure VM to Azure Storage Account)

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Info: This documentation shows the implementation using the test lab provided by Microsoft Learn.

Environment Preparation / Database Provisioning:

1. Download the database backup file located on https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning/dp-300-database-administrator/blob/master/Instructions/Templates/AdventureWorks2017.bak to C:\LabFiles\HADR path on the lab virtual machine (create the folder structure if it does not exist).

2. Select Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 18.

RESTORE DATABASE AdventureWorks2017
FROM DISK = 'C:\LabFiles\HADR\AdventureWorks2017.bak'
WITH RECOVERY,
      MOVE 'AdventureWorks2017' 
        TO 'C:\LabFiles\HADR\AdventureWorks2017.mdf',
      MOVE 'AdventureWorks2017_log'
        TO 'C:\LabFiles\HADR\AdventureWorks2017_log.ldf';

Configure Backup to URL:

Link: https://portal.azure.com

az storage account create -n "dp300backupstorage1234" -g "contoso-rglod23149951" --kind StorageV2 -l eastus2

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