http://simonwillison.net/2008-10-23T15:54:27+00:00Simon Willison2008-10-23T15:54:27+00:002008-10-23T15:54:27+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Oct/23/amazon/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://aws.amazon.com/windows/">Windows Server and SQL Server on EC2</a></strong></p> Launched today, the pricing includes rental of the Windows license. Regular Windows is 25% to 50% more expensive than Linux, but SQL Server comes in at a hefty $1.10 per hour, which is $9636 per year (nearly three times as much as a Linux server running an open source database). <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/10/big-day-for-ec2.html">AWS Blog</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cloud-computing">cloud-computing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ec2">ec2</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pricing">pricing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sqlserver">sqlserver</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/windows">windows</a></p>

2008-04-26T09:12:13+00:002008-04-26T09:12:13+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Apr/26/hackademixnet/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://hackademix.net/2008/04/26/mass-attack-faq/">Mass Attack FAQ</a></strong></p> Thousands of IIS Web servers have been infected with an automated mass XSS attack, not through a specific IIS vulnerability but using a universal XSS SQL query that targets SQL Server and modifies every text field to add the attack JavaScript. If an app has even a single SQL injection hole (and many do) it is likely to be compromised. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/iis">iis</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/massattack">massattack</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security">security</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sql">sql</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sql-injection">sql-injection</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sqlserver">sqlserver</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xss">xss</a></p>

2008-03-17T16:05:18+00:002008-03-17T16:05:18+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Mar/17/unbracketed/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://unbracketed.org/2008/mar/16/pycon-2008-django-now-plays-dark-side/">Django on IronPython</a></strong></p> Dino Viehland demonstrated Django running on IronPython and SQL Server at PyCon. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dinoviehland">dinoviehland</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ironpython">ironpython</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/microsoft">microsoft</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pycon">pycon</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sqlserver">sqlserver</a></p>