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Restorable Dropped Databases Naming in Azure SQL DB

Tanayankar Chakraborty asks, what’s in a name?:

An issue was reported recently where the customer complained that in their cost analysis report of their Azure SQL DBs, the db name appears appended with a comma(,) and a number. While they agreed with the DB name in the report, they didn’t understand the number after the comma and its significance. This is how the cost analysis report looks like:

Click through for a redacted version of the report, showing an example of the database in question, as well as an explanation of what this number means.