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by jiggawatts 1880 days ago
You can export Azure SQL Databases to a "BACPAC" file, which is much faster. This can then be restored onto on-prem SQL equally fast.

It's about 20-30 lines of PowerShell to do this, and then you can just double-click the script and drink a coffee.

Alternatively, for data-only changes you can use Azure SQL Sync, but I've found that it's primitive and a bit useless for anything complicated...