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Message Posted: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 @ 11:32:48 GMT





     
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Subj:   Re: EXPLAIN rights
 
From:   Paddock, Eric



Glenn David McCall wrote:

  The explain doesn't have visibility of the data holding because it doesn't actually run the query. So it shouldn't be able to return any values from the database itself.  


But it returns the actual names of the underlying tables and columns, and this can be a security breach in some environments...


Eric Paddock

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