Editing SQL injection (section)

==In popular culture==
* A 2007 ''[[xkcd]]'' cartoon involved a character ''Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--'' named to carry out an SQL injection. As a result of this cartoon, SQL injection is sometimes informally referred to as "Bobby Tables".<ref>{{cite web|last=Munroe|first=Randall|title=XKCD: Exploits of a Mom|url=http://xkcd.com/327/|access-date=26 February 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130225190751/http://www.xkcd.com/327/|archive-date=February 25, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Bobby Tables Guide to SQL Injection|date=September 15, 2009|url=http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/the-bobby-tables-guide-to-sql-injection/|access-date=30 October 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107060055/https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/the-bobby-tables-guide-to-sql-injection/|archive-date=November 7, 2017}}</ref>
* Unauthorized login to websites by means of SQL injection forms the basis of one of the subplots in [[J.K. Rowling]]'s 2012 novel ''[[The Casual Vacancy]]''.{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}}
* In 2014, an individual in Poland legally renamed his business to ''<nowiki>Dariusz Jakubowski x'; DROP TABLE users; SELECT '1</nowiki>'' in an attempt to disrupt operation of spammers' [[Web scraping|harvesting bots]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Jego firma ma w nazwie SQL injection. Nie zazdrościmy tym, którzy będą go fakturowali ;)|website=Niebezpiecznik|language=pl|date=11 September 2014|url=http://niebezpiecznik.pl/post/jego-firma-ma-w-nazwie-sql-injection-nie-zazdroscimy-tym-ktorzy-beda-go-fakturowali/|access-date=26 September 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924073521/http://niebezpiecznik.pl/post/jego-firma-ma-w-nazwie-sql-injection-nie-zazdroscimy-tym-ktorzy-beda-go-fakturowali/|archive-date=September 24, 2014}}</ref>
* The 2015 game ''[[Hacknet]]'' has a hacking program called SQL_MemCorrupt. It is described as injecting a table entry that causes a corruption error in an SQL database, then queries said table, causing an SQL database crash and [[core dump]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}}