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Old 04-24-2008, 06:09 PM
Kees Nuyt
 
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Default Re: error with UNIQUE key length?

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:29:28 -0700 (PDT),
lawpoop@gmail.com wrote:

>Well, if we have a database that's available to the public through a
>website, and some entreprising hacker wants to do an SQL injection,
>they would get quite a leg up if they could look up the exact names of
>our fields and tables.


They could try to query the INFORMATION_SCHEMA first,
or use SHOW CREATE ... and explore from there.
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