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When is gateway needed?
From what I was reading, if you have a public datasource then the gateway is not needed. I am pulling database from a sql server that is hosted on a vm in azure and it is not behind my firewall. W...
coneslager Gateway is required for on-prem data sources like flat files, on-prem databases and not for online data sources. Even SQL Server hosted in Azure VM does not require gateway. I have few reports getting data from Azure VM and refresh works fine without any gateway installed.
What options or configurations did you set to get your Azure VM with SQL database to refresh without using a gateway?