Accessing SQL Server over an SSH tunnel

Question

In my development shop, we deploy code on virtual servers that sit on a remote network.

We access the machines on that network by first opening an SSH connection to

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure I figured out the answer to this, actually.

On the remote network (which we don't control), for security purposes, it appears that the database servers are set up to ignore database requests coming from the gateway machine. So I guess there's just no good solution short of convincing them to give us full VPN access. Thanks everyone for your help.