title: Azure SQL Export via https://portal.azure.com Never Completes
body: <p>Have tried exporting our sql database several times, several different copies (regional replication), and we always get a zero byte file in our storage blob account.  No statuses, no error messages.  </p>
  
  <p>Any hints?</p>
  
  <p>Edit:  None of the below answers solved my issue.  The issue was there was an invalid view in the database, which was causing the export to silently fail.</p>