| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | 
                
                                                            | ad_user 
                    string
                                                                 |  | Active Directory username. Use when authenticating with an Active Directory user rather than service principal. | 
                            
                                                            | adfs_authority_url 
                    string
                                                                 added in 2.6 |  | Azure AD authority url. Use when authenticating with Username/password, and has your own ADFS authority. | 
                            
                                                            | api_profile 
                    string
                                                                 added in 2.5 | Default: 
 "latest" | Selects an API profile to use when communicating with Azure services. Default value of latestis appropriate for public clouds; future values will allow use with Azure Stack. | 
                            
                                                            | append_tags 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | Use to control if tags field is canonical or just appends to existing tags. When canonical, any tags not found in the tags parameter will be removed from the object's metadata. | 
                            
                                                            | auth_source 
                    string
                                                                 added in 2.5 | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            autoclicredential_fileenvmsi | Controls the source of the credentials to use for authentication. If not specified, ANSIBLE_AZURE_AUTH_SOURCE environment variable will be used and default to autoif variable is not defined. autowill follow the default precedence of module parameters -> environment variables -> default profile in credential file~/.azure/credentials.
 When set to cli, the credentials will be sources from the default Azure CLI profile. Can also be set via the ANSIBLE_AZURE_AUTH_SOURCEenvironment variable. When set to msi, the host machine must be an azure resource with an enabled MSI extension.subscription_idor the environment variableAZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_IDcan be used to identify the subscription ID if the resource is granted access to more than one subscription, otherwise the first subscription is chosen. The msiwas added in Ansible 2.6. | 
                            
                                                            | cert_validation_mode 
                    string
                                                                 added in 2.5 |  | Controls the certificate validation behavior for Azure endpoints. By default, all modules will validate the server certificate, but when an HTTPS proxy is in use, or against Azure Stack, it may be necessary to disable this behavior by passing ignore. Can also be set via credential file profile or theAZURE_CERT_VALIDATIONenvironment variable. | 
                            
                                                            | client_id 
                    string
                                                                 |  | Azure client ID. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal. | 
                            
                                                            | cloud_environment 
                    string
                                                                 added in 2.4 | Default: 
 "AzureCloud" | For cloud environments other than the US public cloud, the environment name (as defined by Azure Python SDK, eg, AzureChinaCloud,AzureUSGovernment), or a metadata discovery endpoint URL (required for Azure Stack). Can also be set via credential file profile or theAZURE_CLOUD_ENVIRONMENTenvironment variable. | 
                            
                                                            | collation 
                    -
                                                                 |  | The collation of the database. If not create_mode=default, this value is ignored. | 
                            
                                                            | create_mode 
                    -
                                                                 | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            copydefaultnon_readable_secondaryonline_secondarypoint_in_time_restorerecoveryrestorerestore_long_term_retention_backup | Specifies the mode of database creation. default, regular database creation.
 copy, creates a database as a copy of an existing database.
 online_secondary/non_readable_secondary, creates a database as a (readable or nonreadable) secondary replica of an existing database.
 point_in_time_restore, Creates a database by restoring a point in time backup of an existing database.
 recovery, Creates a database by restoring a geo-replicated backup.
 restore, Creates a database by restoring a backup of a deleted database.
 restore_long_term_retention_backup, Creates a database by restoring from a long term retention vault.
 copy,non_readable_secondary,online_secondaryandrestore_long_term_retention_backupare not supported fordata_warehouseedition.
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                                                            | edition 
                    -
                                                                 | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            webbusinessbasicstandardpremiumfreestretchdata_warehousesystemsystem2 | The edition of the database. The DatabaseEditions enumeration contains all the valid editions. If create_mode=non_readable_secondary or create_mode=online_secondary, this value is ignored. To see possible values, query the capabilities API (/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Sql/locations/{locationID}/capabilities) referred to by operationId:'Capabilities_ListByLocation'. | 
                            
                                                            | elastic_pool_name 
                    -
                                                                 |  | The name of the elastic pool the database is in. Not supported for edition=data_warehouse. | 
                            
                                                            | force_update 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | SQL Database will be updated if given parameters differ from existing resource state. To force SQL Database update in any circumstances set this parameter to True. | 
                            
                                                            | location 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Resource location. If not set, location from the resource group will be used as default. | 
                            
                                                            | max_size_bytes 
                    -
                                                                 |  | The max size of the database expressed in bytes. If not create_mode=default, this value is ignored. To see possible values, query the capabilities API (/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Sql/locations/{locationID}/capabilities). referred to by operationId:'Capabilities_ListByLocation'. | 
                            
                                                            | name 
                    -
                                             / required                     |  | The name of the database to be operated on (updated or created). | 
                            
                                                            | password 
                    string
                                                                 |  | Active Directory user password. Use when authenticating with an Active Directory user rather than service principal. | 
                            
                                                            | profile 
                    string
                                                                 |  | Security profile found in ~/.azure/credentials file. | 
                            
                                                            | read_scale 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | If the database is a geo-secondary, indicates whether read-only connections are allowed to this database or not. Not supported for edition=data_warehouse. | 
                            
                                                            | recovery_services_recovery_point_resource_id 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Required if create_mode=restore_long_term_retention_backup, then this value is required. Specifies the resource ID of the recovery point to restore from. | 
                            
                                                            | resource_group 
                    -
                                             / required                     |  | The name of the resource group that contains the resource. You can obtain this value from the Azure Resource Manager API or the portal. | 
                            
                                                            | restore_point_in_time 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Required if create_mode=point_in_time_restore, this value is required. If create_mode=restore, this value is optional. Specifies the point in time (ISO8601 format) of the source database that will be restored to create the new database. Must be greater than or equal to the source database's earliestRestoreDate value. | 
                            
                                                            | sample_name 
                    -
                                                                 | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            adventure_works_lt | Indicates the name of the sample schema to apply when creating this database. If not create_mode=default, this value is ignored. Not supported for edition=data_warehouse. | 
                            
                                                            | secret 
                    string
                                                                 |  | Azure client secret. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal. | 
                            
                                                            | server_name 
                    -
                                             / required                     |  | The name of the server. | 
                            
                                                            | source_database_deletion_date 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Required if create_mode=restore and source_database_id is the deleted database's original resource id when it existed (as opposed to its current restorable dropped database ID), then this value is required. Specifies the time that the database was deleted. | 
                            
                                                            | source_database_id 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Required unless create_mode=default or create_mode=restore_long_term_retention_backup. Specifies the resource ID of the source database. | 
                            
                                                            | state 
                    -
                                                                 | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            absentpresent ← | Assert the state of the SQL Database. Use presentto create or update an SQL Database andabsentto delete it. | 
                            
                                                            | subscription_id 
                    string
                                                                 |  | Your Azure subscription Id. | 
                            
                                                            | tags 
                    dictionary
                                                                 |  | Dictionary of string:string pairs to assign as metadata to the object. Metadata tags on the object will be updated with any provided values. To remove tags set append_tags option to false. | 
                            
                                                            | tenant 
                    string
                                                                 |  | Azure tenant ID. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal. | 
                            
                                                            | zone_redundant 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | Is this database is zone redundant? It means the replicas of this database will be spread across multiple availability zones. |