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 - [Read an item](#read-an-item)
 - [Delete an item](#delete-an-data)
 
+> [!IMPORTANT]
+> Management operations like creating a database or a container will not be available if role-based access control (RBAC) is used to authenticate instead of using a key as described above. For more details on using RBAC, see [Permissions model](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/how-to-setup-rbac#permission-model).
+
 ### Create a database
 
 After authenticating your [CosmosClient](/javascript/api/@azure/cosmos/cosmosclient?view=azure-node-latest), you can work with any resource in the account. The code snippet below creates a SQL API database.