How to take a backup & Restore of Azure SQL table in Azure Blob storage and vice versa

Question

I want to take an Archival(Backup) of Azure SQL Table to the Azure Blob Storage, I have done the backup in Azure Blob storage using via the Pipeline in CSV file format. And From the Azure Blob Storage, I have restored the data into the Azure SQL Table successfully using the Bulk Insert process.

But now I want to retrieve the data from this CSV file using some kind of filter criteria. Is there any way that I can apply a filter query on Azure Blob storage to retrieve the data?

Is there any other way to take a backup differently and then retrieve the data from Azure Storage?

My end goal is to take a backup of the Azure SQL table in Azure Storage and retrieve the data directly from Azure Storage with a filter .

Answer 1

AFAIK, there is no such filtering option available when restoring the database. But, as you are asking for another way to backup and restoring, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is one the most conveniently used platform for almost all SQL Server related activities.

You can use SSMS to access Azure SQL database using server name and Login Password.

Find this official tutorial from Microsoft about how to take backup of your Azure SQL Database and store it in Storage account and then restore it.