Tag - SQL

System Metadata Tables and INFORMATION_SCHEMA in SQL Server

Information about assemblies as well as the assembly code itself and the dependencies is stored in the system metadata tables, which, in general, store information about SQL Server database objects, such as tables and indexes. Some metadata tables store information for the entire database instance and exist only in the  MASTER database; some are...

SQL Injection

It is a way of hacking on a database driven application in which the hacker executes unauthorized SQL commands by taking advantage of insecure code on a system connected to the Internet, bypassing the firewall. SQL injection hackers are used to steal information from a database from which the data would normally not be available...