restore-and-recover

Recovers an Azure SQL Database after data loss, an accidental drop or a bad deployment, using point-in-time restore, geo-restore and long-term retention. Use when someone asks to "restore my Azure SQL database", "undo a dropped table or database", "roll back to before this migration ran", "recover from a region outage", or asks for RESTORE DATABASE or BACKUP DATABASE syntax. There is no backup or restore T-SQL here: BACKUP DATABASE, RESTORE DATABASE and every RESTORE ... ONLY variant are refused, and restoring is a control plane operation. Every restore creates a new database beside the one being recovered rather than overwriting it, so this covers the restore type and the rename or connection swap back. Not a schema rollback (schema-migrations-safely), not a logical export or import (sqlpackage-import-export), not creating it (provision-azure-sql-db).