Just gimme a second to put words in your SQL statement

Do you have your application hooked up to a database?  Do you do stuff like

string sql = "SELECT * FROM Products"+
  "Where Id " + userInput;

Well, if I was mean (I'm not), I could do some naughty things that would be called a SQL Injection Attack.  Imagine if I did sent in "1; Drop Table Product;" as a end user.

Well, fear not, there are a few super easy ways to prevent this type of attack.

Colin Mackay has an article that explains in more detail on the SQL injection attack and multiple ways to prevent it.

A few quick ways are to use SQL parameters and to validate your data instead of blindly trusting your end user.  Here is an example of a parameterized query.

string commandText = "SELECT * FROM Customers "+
    "WHERE Country=@CountryName";
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(commandText, conn);
cmd.Parameters.Add("@CountryName",countryName);

Remember, Johnny Drop Table, can cause some trouble.