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In a word "laziness." It is just easier to log in and manage an SQL server if it is available on the internet.

In a word "laziness." It is just easier to log in and manage an SQL server if it is available on the internet. I know I'm certainly guilty of doing so for short periods when I'm off-site with no VPN and need to manage a server. Some sysadmins just get lazy and leave it available on the internet with strong passwords 24/7, just so once in a blue moon they can log in and manage it. Or are doing some kind of site to site data migration and are tired of the VPN connection dropping. I've done a site to site SQL migration across two Azure zones because doing it the "right" way was too complicated/time consuming/expensive. However once the data was copied across I changed the End Point config to protect the SQL server again. I won't make excuses, it is just laziness/expedient. But that is human nature for you...

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In a word "laziness." It is just easier to log in and manage an SQL server if it is available on the internet.

Someone1234Jan 21, 2015, 9:21 PM

In a word "laziness." It is just easier to log in and manage an SQL server if it is available on the internet. I know I'm certainly guilty of doing so for short periods when I'm off-site with no VPN and need to manage a server. Some sysadmins just get lazy and leave it available on the internet with strong passwords 24/7, just so once in a blue moon they can log in and manage it. Or are doing some kind of site to site data migration and are tired of the VPN connection dropping. I've done a site to site SQL migration across two Azure zones because doing it the "right" way was too complicated/time consuming/expensive. However once the data was copied across I changed the End Point config to protect the SQL server again. I won't make excuses, it is just laziness/expedient. But that is human nature for you...

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