If an attacker tries to input a malicious SQL statement, the database will treat the statement as data, not code, and the query won’t be turned into a malicious one. 2. Use stored procedures ...

While checking SQL syntax itself is somewhat straightforward, [Joe]’s sql-lint tool will also check the semantics of it by looking up the actual database and performing sanity checks on it.

SQL Server 2016 provides new support for working with JSON objects. In a previous column, I discussed how to generate JSON from SQL queries. This column looks at the reverse process: accepting JSON ...

One other difference: With SqlQuery the names used in your SQL statement's Select clause had to match the names of the properties on your entity object. That means if you'd used the Column attribute ...

You can use SQL to create, modify, search, and display database information. Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements.

There are several types of SQL injection, but they all involve an attacker inserting arbitrary SQL into a web application database query. The simplest form of SQL injection is through user input.

FROM statement using source data that's known to have flaws. Back to the OP - either filter out the bad records in the WHERE clause, or put a CASE statement in the UPDATE list. No need for a cursor.

Prepared statements avoid the process of compiling, parsing and running a stored procedure or inline SQL statement in your code. The PHP prepared statement function speeds up the application ...

SQL Server throws a wobbly when one tries to declare/create the same-named temporary table more than once in the same procedure - I guess the query analyser assumes that all temp table creations ...