Cross Subscription Copying of Databases on Windows Azure SQL Database

Question

We are about to split our testing and production instances in Windows Azure into two separate subscriptions. Currently we have 3 Windows Azure SQL Database instances that r

Answer 1

I guess you already have a solution, however for anyone landing here, you can use the Azure PowerShell API's to Create a new server in the source subscription, create a copy and switch over the new server to the destination subscription

Sample code is available on technet

The code is self explanatory, however in the interest of SO best practices,

Key portions of the code are

Create a new server:

$newserver = New-AzureSqlDatabaseServer -Location $targetServerLocation -AdministratorLogin $targetServerLoginID -AdministratorLoginPassword $targetServerLoginPassword 

Create a database copy:

Start-AzureSqlDatabaseCopy -ServerName $sourceServerName -DatabaseName $sourceDatabaseName -PartnerServer $newserver.ServerName  -PartnerDatabase $targetdatabaseName  

Transfer the server

$uri = "https://management.core.windows.net:8443/" + $sourceSubscriptionID + "/services" + "/sqlservers/servers/" + $newserver.ServerName + "?op=ChangeSubscription" 

Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $uri -CertificateThumbPrint $certThumbprint -ContentType $contenttype -Method $method -Headers $headers -Body $body