An important aspect of database security is designing your applications to avoid SQL injection attacks. SQL injection is a form of web hacking whereby SQL statements are specified in the fields of a ...

Simba''s Apache Hive and HBase ODBC Drivers with SQL Connectors provide customers easy access to their data for Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics using the SQL-based application of their ...

Have you noticed that dynamic SQL is more popular today than ever before? There are a number of factors contributing to the success of dynamic SQL. Commercial off-the-shelf applications, such as SAP, ...

A new application for Blockchain named Catena is being implemented for SQL developers and users. Italian for “chain,” Catena is a database created on a Blockchain and is accessible using SQL.

One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record ...

SQL injection attacks may have declined compared to other methods, but they are still a big concern among businesses large and small ...

Siddharth says that he sees many examples of misapplied SQL injection prevention measures and techniques giving application and security professionals a false sense of security.

I have written an application that takes in a fixed-width file (thanks in no small part to advice I recieved in a seperate thread) and then dissasembles each line, runs a fairly meaty SQL SELECT ...

Security researchers have developed a generic technique for SQL injection that bypasses multiple web application firewalls (WAFs). At the core of the issue was WAF vendors failing to add support ...

Are there any special adjustments that need to be made (on the SQL server side, or the database/query side) to accomodate for communications over a slow(er) WAN link? We have had slow performance ...