How To Backup Microsoft Azure SQL Database Using ASP.NET

Question

Good day, I am trying to backup a Microsoft Azure SQL database using an ASP.Net application programmatically into either a.BACPAC file I can download to a local machine or into an Azure blob storage platform. I know similar questions have been asked before but I have searched the web and cannot find a recent solution that seems to work. A simple "Backup database" SQL query also doesn't seem to be possible as I am constantly thrown with the error message: 'BACKUP DATABASE' is not supported in this version of SQL Server. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Attempt at consuming API

Answer 1

The simplest way i think is to use Databases - Export Rest Api (Exports a database to a bacpac) The rest api provides you with a blobUri which you can use to download or transfer to Azure blob storage