DocumentClient.CreateDatabaseAsync Method

Definition

Creates a database resource as an asychronous operation in the Azure DocumentDB database service.

public System.Threading.Tasks.Task<Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client.ResourceResponse<Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Database>> CreateDatabaseAsync (Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Database database, Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client.RequestOptions options = null);
Parameters
database
Database

The specification for the Database to create.

options
RequestOptions

(Optional) The RequestOptions for the request.

Returns

The Database that was created within a task object representing the service response for the asynchronous operation.

Exceptions

If database is not set.

Represents a consolidation of failures that occured during async processing. Look within InnerExceptions to find the actual exception(s).

This exception can encapsulate many different types of errors. To determine the specific error always look at the StatusCode property. Some common codes you may get when creating a Database are:

StatusCodeReason for exception
400BadRequest - This means something was wrong with the database object supplied. It is likely that an id was not supplied for the new Database.
409Conflict - This means a Database with an id matching the id field of database already existed.