parameterized query with wildcard

Peter Haworth pete at lcsql.com
Thu Jul 30 14:41:34 EDT 2015


If you use the placeholder method, there is no need to sanitize the
strings, that's the point of using it.  Although I guess it depends on what
you mean by "sanitize".

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 8:11 AM Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com>
wrote:

> Yes it does. If you use the placeholder method (I am not really sure what
> to call it at this point) then sqlYoga sanitizes the strings for you. I've
> inserted records with any number of characters using this method without
> any problems reading in or out of the database.
>
> I'm not sure if a direct query like "address = '\\bobscomputer\scans'" is
> sanitized. For the sake of standardization I always use the placeholder
> method.
>
> Bob S
>
>
> > On Jul 28, 2015, at 09:17 , Andrew Kluthe <andrew at ctech.me> wrote:
> >
> > Does revDataFromQuery do any sanitizing/proper to prevent me from
> sneaking
> > extra SQL into your search box like an injection style attack, or does it
> > just plop whatever you give in there no questions asked? Just curious. I
> > have always been spoiled by SQLYoga or rolled my DB interfaces up into
> API
> > servers of some kind.
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:09 AM Dave Kilroy <
> dave at applicationinsight.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Mike, assuming you are searching the db with parameter pSearchTerm, try
> >> something like this:
> >>
> >>
> >> put "%" & pSearchTerm & "%" into tSearchTerm
> >> put "SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar LIKE :1" into tQuery
> >> get revDataFromQuery(tab, return, sDBID, tQuery, "tSearchTerm")
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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