What are the reasons for exposing an SQL server directly to the internet? Obviously there's a bunch of people who have mis-configured and have accidently exposed their systems, but are there real-world reasons to expose a SQL server directly to the net?
I would think most people who are sharing datasets would do so with some sort of API - and there'd need to be room for rate limiting / blacklisting IPs and so on. I would never expose a SQL server directly to the net, and I'm really curious if there are reasons to do so?
What are the reasons for exposing an SQL server directly to the internet? Obviously there's a bunch of people who have mis-configured and have accidently exposed their systems, but are there real-world reasons to expose a SQL server directly to the net?
I would think most people who are sharing datasets would do so with some sort of API - and there'd need to be room for rate limiting / blacklisting IPs and so on. I would never expose a SQL server directly to the net, and I'm really curious if there are reasons to do so?