> Since I'm an SQL newbie, I'd be curious to know how someone could supply
> the appropriate input to do bad things on the SQL server - either in R/O or
> R/W mode

well, i didn't dive too deeply into this subject, but afaik, as long as
the user-input is just Strings that get escaped, there shouldn't be a
problem (correct me if i'm wrong). But if user-input gets written into
an INT-field (or any other data type that does not require those "'"),
you're in trouble if you write without server-side checking... imagine a
HTML-form containing only integer values, in combination with a query
like:
SELECT Name FROM Users WHERE ID = <user_input> ORDER BY Name

no problem if <user_input> is really integer... but what about

5; DROP TABLE SomeOtherTable; SELECT Name FROM Users WHERE ID = 5

? Hope you've got a backup :)

cheers, florian

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         Florian Specker, speckericu.unizh.ch
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