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Language Community Litmus Test: Database Placeholders

2014-03-04

Search for "[language] database tutorial". Out of the top 5 results, how many of them show how to use safe practices (preferably placeholders, but safe quoting functions are OK, too) at the earliest available opportunity?

I award a score of 5 points for the first result, 4 for the second, and so on. A perfect score would be 15. If the first INSERT or SELECT statement has simple static data, I give it a pass and find the first statement that's filling in data from variables.

There are some caveats with the judging of this data: