Tag Archives: sql

High Scalability – Strategy: Google Sends Canary Requests into the Data Mine

Google of course has a really solid solu­tion to solv­ing the Query of Death issue.

December 5, 2010 – 6:33 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

SQL injection with raw MD5 hashes – cvk | nc –l –p 80<

Seem­ingly impos­si­ble to build a pass­word that would after being MD5 hashed return a SQL injec­tion, but nope it is pos­si­ble even within a rea­son­able time frame.

November 29, 2010 – 12:06 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts, Security | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

SQL: The Basics

SQL is a domain spe­cific lan­guage (a lan­guage designed to do one thing and knock the socks off at doing it) that just accesses data­bases. Okay but what is a data­base? Well a data­base is essen­tially a col­lec­tion of data, yeah I know that doesn’t help much. To clar­ify we’ll play a lit­tle men­tal exer­cise. Imag­ine …

May 9, 2009 – 10:40 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off