Do you need a database gateway?
What is a database gateway? A database gateway is an appliance (usually a virtual one) that sits between your database server(s) and your database client(s). By acting as a proxy between them, at the wire protocol level, the gateway can monitor, redirect, inject, modify and reject requests and responses between database clients and database servers. In other words, a database gateway can change the way your databases and your applications work, without actually modifying your database or your client. This is no different than other types of gateways. For instance, when you look at a web page in your browser, it's entirely possible that it's not exactly the page that was sent by the site you're browsing. Many enterprises and ISPs have gateways that introspect HTML pages and add or remove ads, scripts, and other content. This happens transparently, and most people are completely unaware that this is happening. A database gateway works similarly: it receives requests from data...