Azure SQL Data Warehouse - how to drop a database?

164 Views Asked by user8612046 At 04 April 2025 at 01:38

How to drop an Azure SQL Data Warehouse database? drop database T-SQL command does not apply to ASDW.

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wBob On 15 September 2017 at 09:17 BEST ANSWER

Azure SQL Data Warehouse does not support DROP DATABASE as per the current documentation:

Delete your database via the Azure portal.

Matt Usher On 15 September 2017 at 16:39

This is a doc bug. You can connect to the master database and run:

DROP DATABASE <database name>

I've already updated the docs to reflect this.