I have a database deployed on Azure SQL. Due to various requirements, my company would like to make a continuous mirror of this database to an on-premise SQL Server database. We have explored several ways to implement this, so far to no avail.
The way recommended online, using the Azure Sync tool, didn't work for us -- and seeing as this tool is currently in CTP, it is not currently supported by Microsoft, so we want to implement this ourselves.
The requirements for this mirroring solution aren't extremely high - we only want to make backups every half an hour or so, so continuous synchronization isn't an issue. What would be the best way to approach this without resorting to commercial solutions that seem to be an overkill for us?