-> I tried renaming an Azure SQL database JBDB and got below error,

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
Unable to rename JBDB_old. (ObjectExplorer)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Rename failed for Database ‘JBDB’. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)
For help, …..

An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)

The operation cannot be performed since the database ‘JBDB’ is in a replication relationship. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 40680)

For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft%20SQL%20Server&ProdVer=12.00.2148&EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&EvtID=40680&LinkId=20476

-> Error explains that this database is in a replication relationship. Let’s check if it is part of failover group,

-> Database JBDB is part of failover group. Lets remove this database from failover group and try renaming it.

-> Once removed from failover group. Open Azure SQL Database and click on database JBDB. Open “Geo-Replication” and stop it for JBDB database.

-> Try renaming the database and it will complete this time.

Thank You,
Vivek Janakiraman

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