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PedroC88
5 years agoFrequent Visitor
Run Data Gateway from container
Currently my company has a data gateway installed on a physical server on-prem. This server is being decommissioned and I need to run the datagateway from Azure where we have the VPNs configured and ...
PedroC88
5 years agoFrequent Visitor
lbendlin that's why I'm not all bought on that "time window" approach. Normally users don't need to see live data, yesterday's data is usually fine, however, on month-end closings for example when accounting is working on reconciling their systems, if they make any entries or adjustments they need to be able to refresh the report on demand, highlighting the need for the gateway to be on 24x7.
lbendlin
5 years agoSuper User
Also - this whole discussion assumes that your data sources are accessed in import mode. As soon as you use Direct Query you need your gateway to be on all the time anyway.