From HTML to SQL As designed, SQL works with regular two-dimensional tables with data arranged neatly into rows and columns. Web-based information — in the form of HTML — just isn’t like ...

The simplest form of SQL injection is through user input. Web applications typically accept user input through a form, and the front end passes the user input to the back-end database for processing.

Underscoring the danger, security firm ScanSafe announced this week that it had found nearly 100,000 Web pages that had been compromised using a SQL-injection attack to include malicious code.

SQL injection attacks allow a malicious user potentially unlimited access to the content in your application’s database, no matter what security the application has tried to enforce.

Native SQLite runs 2-3 times faster than absurd-sql, which demonstrates how slow IndexedDB really is. There are other storage standards on the horizon for web browsers, but locking becomes an issue.

The database chapter is primarily focused on MySQL, but it also touches on other SQL databases. In the next part of the book, these three tools--the three-tier approach, PHP and MySQL--are combined to ...