Nick Duncan

Web Entrepreneur & SEO Consultant

Entries Tagged ‘mysql’

Stopping SQL Injections

SQL injection is a code injection technique that exploits a security vulnerability occurring in the database layer of an application. The vulnerability is present when user input is either incorrectly filtered for string literal escape characters embedded in SQL statements or user input is not strongly typed and thereby unexpectedly executed.

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Maximum MySQL Database Size?

While developing myScoop, and other experimental projects, I have been thinking about the limitations of a MySQL database, particularly it’s maximum file size. I was amazed that after some research I really have absolutely nothing to worry about. It seems my 112mb database is a “new born baby” in the terms of how big it can still grow.

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