services / Azure / Azure SQL Database failover

Customer-initiated failover of a database to its secondary replica.

Availability action against a production database.

Microsoft.​Sql/​servers/​databases/​failover/​action

Forcing a failover interrupts connections and causes a brief availability gap while the secondary is promoted; repeated forced failovers can be used to disrupt a production workload.

Risks

1. Denial-of-service (HIGH)

Scope: HIGH

This privilege may grant access to sensitive data from a single organizational function, or allow interruption of a service supporting a single organizational function.

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