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Practical Security
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Practical Security

by Roman Zabicki
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
134 pages
3h 36m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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SQL Injection

SQL, which stands for Structured Query Language, is widely used in web applications to store and retrieve data from databases. SQL is a subtle and complex topic, so for now we’ll cover just enough to understand one of the most common database attacks, the SQL injection.

The examples in this chapter are written to work on MySQL,[28] a widely used open source database. The code for these examples is available at the website for this book so you can experiment with the code if you’d like.[29] We won’t cover MySQL installation in this chapter, though, since it’s covered in detail on the official MySQL website.

How SQL Works

The first step in using SQL is to establish a connection to the database that people can connect to directly using ...

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