This seems like something I should know, but I cannot recall a firm answer, and trying to google this just turns up a mass of irrelevant hits so far... anyway,The thing that I like most about SQL Azure is that my client apps can access it from anywhere. No tunneling, VPN, network conflicts, etc. If I can get to the internet, I can connect to my database (firewalls aside). The thing is, at my company, we don't really need or want all of the other features of SQL Azure (hosting, storage, backup, support, etc.). We have our own servers, storage, SQL Server licenses, web sites, etc.So what we'd really like is to be able to "publish" one of our databases to our website and then be able to access it from our ADO.net client applications, just like we do with SQL Azure. [b]Is That Possible?[/b] Is there any reasonable way at all to do that?To be clear, I am not talking about writing a bunch of custom WebServices or anything like that. I mean, being able to, say, take one of my Excel sheets that I have right now pulling data from one of our SQL Azure databases, and just changing the server address so that it can connect to one of the company's on-premise databases, while I am working from home or another site, but [i]without me having to tunnel/VPN into the company network[/i].Also, I do realize that there may be security issues, but that's a separate issue that we'll look at after we determine if this is even possible.Thanks, ...
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