VB apps connecting directly to SQL 2000 via Internet

From: Jeremy Byrski (Jeremy.Byrski.NosPAm@vico-solutions.com)
Date: 09/05/02 

From: "Jeremy Byrski" <Jeremy.Byrski.NosPAm@vico-solutions.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 23:37:22 +0100

Greetings,

We are working on a VB.net application that we would like to directly communicate with a webserver that is running SQL 2000.

I was wondering is this an entirly wise idea?

  a.. Are we leaving ourselves open to an easy attack from the web since we would have a port open directly on the Interent (1433?)
  b.. Is there a better way of connecting the VB app to the SQL server through a kind of proxy (that i'm not aware of)
I know one way would be to setup a VPN for each site that was going to use this app, but it would require alot of management, can any one helkp with this, or suggest another way of connecting the VB app to a SQL server via the Internet

Thanks in advance.
Jeremy Byrski

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