SQL SERVER – Stretch Database – ERROR: The Provided Location is Not Available for Resource Group

This was my first experiment with this feature called Stretch Database. I have started the wizard and encountered at the very end. Here is the error message.

And here is the text of error message.

Operation to create resource group stretchgroup-australiacentral failed. Details : {“error”:{“code”:”LocationNotAvailableForResourceGroup”,”message”:”The provided location ‘australiacentral’ is not available for resource group. List of available regions is ‘centralus,eastasia,southeastasia,eastus,eastus2,westus,westus2,northcentralus,southcentralus,westcentralus,northeurope,westeurope,japaneast,japanwest,brazilsouth,australiasoutheast,australiaeast,westindia,southindia,centralindia,canadacentral,canadaeast,uksouth,ukwest,koreacentral,koreasouth,francecentral,southafricanorth’.”}}

It also gave an option to read the logs and I found the same error there also.

1. [Informational] TaskUpdates: Message:Task : ‘Provision Azure Sql Server stretchserver-stretchdbdemo-20190317-031938571’ — Status : ‘Started’ — Details : ‘Task ‘Provision Azure Sql Server stretchserver-stretchdbdemo-20190317-031938571′ started ….’.
2. [Informational] TaskUpdates: Message:Task : ‘Provision Azure Sql Server stretchserver-stretchdbdemo-20190317-031938571’ — Status : ‘Running’ — Details : ‘Task failed due to following error: Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.StretchDatabase.Model.Tasks.CreateResourceGroupFailedException: Operation to create resource group stretchgroup-australiacentral failed. Details : {“error”:{“code”:”LocationNotAvailableForResourceGroup”,”message”:”The provided location ‘australiacentral’ is not available for resource group. List of available regions is ‘centralus,eastasia,southeastasia,eastus,eastus2,westus,westus2,northcentralus,southcentralus,westcentralus,northeurope,westeurope,japaneast,japanwest,brazilsouth,australiasoutheast,australiaeast,westindia,southindia,centralindia,canadacentral,canadaeast,uksouth,ukwest,koreacentral,koreasouth,francecentral,southafricanorth’.”}}

at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.StretchDatabase.Model.Tasks.ProvisionSqlAzureServerTask.CreateNewResourceGroup(ResourceManagement resourceManagementChannel, ServiceOperationStatus& status)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.StretchDatabase.Model.Tasks.ProvisionSqlAzureServerTask.Perform(IExecutionPolicy taskExecutionPolicy)
   at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.StretchDatabase.Model.Common.Task.Perform(IExecutionPolicy policy, CancellationToken token, ScenarioTaskHandler taskDelegate), retrying …’.

WORKAROUND/SOLUTION

I must say the error is intuitive and tells that the location is not available. But I was wondering where did I choose the location? So, I launched the wizard again and found the place (highlighted below)

The problem here is that the location came as the default (alphabetically first) and I didn’t pay attention to it.

As soon as I selected “South India” I was able to proceed and stretch the table to Azure.

 Have you tested this feature? Do you have any interesting learning?

Reference: Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)

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