4 Strong Reasons Why You Should Use MySQLi And Not MySQL Extenstion
All my life (till now that is) I have been a self taught programmer and it was like seven years back in 2006 when I...
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Groupon India Leaks User Database Via Google Search [E-Mails And Plain-Text Passwords]
Groupon's India Subsidiary - SoSasta.com accidentally leaked the e-mail addresses and plain-text passwords of it's 3 lakh users via Google search. This shows how seriously Indian web businesses take online security.
Fedora 15 “LoveLock” To Get MySQL 5.5 & PostGreSQL 9
Fedora has always kept it's promise of bringing cutting-edge computer technology to it's users. It has now been confirmed that Fedora 15 "LoveLock" will ship two database packages: MySQL 5.5 and PostGreSQL 9.
How To Use MySql Database in Amarok
By default, Amarok uses SQLite to maintain the library and other data such as ratings, play-counts etc. However, Amarok also comes with support for MySQL...
Twitter ditches MySQL for Cassandra
According to Ryan King, a software engineer at Twitter, the MySQL database used in Twitter is going to be replaced by the open source Cassandra...
SQL Injection – 1 (Introduction)
In this post we shall discuss a very common method of hacking a website (or rather, a database) called SQL Injection. The object of this...