The Structured Query Language, SQL is a query language which is used with relational databases. This chapter starts by describing some of the terms used in data processing and how they relate to SQL. The later part of this chapter describes relational databases and how SQL is used to query them.
MySQL claims to be the world’s most popular open source database, and with good
reason. It is free, runs on a wide variety of platforms, is relatively simple, easy to
configure and performs well even under significant load. By comparison to some other
popular database management systems, configuring it is quite simple, but there are still a
sufficiently wide […]
This document discusses in detail the common ‘SQL injection’ technique, as it applies to the popular Microsoft Internet Information Server/Active Server Pages/SQL Server platform. It discusses the various ways in which SQL can be ‘injected’ into the application and addresses some of the data validation and database lockdown issues that are related to this class […]
You’ve downloaded a new program to install on your website, but it requires a MySQL database be setup, in order to run. Now what? That’s what you’re here to learn. And the fact is — it’s easy. This quick-reading little ebook will tell you how to do that, in only a few short moments.
The following tutorial explains how to do an Oracle pentest with Backtrack 2.0. I want to thank the entire Backtrack-Team for this great collection of security tools and Max for the collaboration.
Nowadays there are many Oracle 10g databases around. Oracle did a good job (but not a
perfect) hardening the database out of the box. Most […]
Microsoft SQL Server uses an undocumented function, pwdencrypt() to produce a hash of the user’s password, which is stored in the sysxlogins table of the master database. This is probably a fairly common known fact. What has not been published yet are the details of the pwdencrypt() function. This paper will discuss the function in […]
