I have several SQL Azure databases on the basic pricing tier. These databases are geo-replicated to a different region for DR purposes.
I am trying to upgrade these basic DB's to the Standard pricing tier so that I can add them to an Elastic Pool with my other Standard tier databases. However, in order to upgrade the pricing tier for the basic DB's I need to remove geo-replication, as described in the Azure documentation. I have done this for one of the databases so far. I have then upgraded the primary and secondary databases to the standard tier and then attempted to reconnect these databases to enable geo-replication but I can't see how to do this. When I try to re-enable geo-replication it tries to create a new database with the same name rather than linking the existing one, this causes an error.
Am I right in thinking the only way to do this is to delete the secondary database, wait for a set period of time and then attempt to add geo-replication again to the primary database and allow Azure to create a new secondary database with the same name? I am concerned that if I delete the secondary database then I will not be able to create a new secondary database with the same name and geo-replication will be broken.