Which sounds great, except that Azure SQL -- like many cloud services -- was carefully designed to be a tarpit into which you can import your data, but can't ge

Which sounds great, except that Azure SQL -- like many cloud services -- was carefully designed to be a tarpit into which you can import your data, but can't get your data back out. For example, for at least a few years its "external" backups were simply the bacpac export function, which wasn't transactionally consistent and had all sorts of fun limits.