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MySQL AB :: MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 8.1.8 Unicode Support - ucs2, the UCS-2 encoding of the Unicode character set using 16 bits per character utf8, a UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode character set using one to three bytes per character… Currently, MySQL support for UTF-8 does not include four-byte sequences.

Sorting It All Out : Is SQL Server really supporting UTF-16? - It is on the part of a large and complex project (SQL Server) that has some components with full support of UTF-16 and some with no support of UTF-16, and most of them in between those two extremes.

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Module Signing - When you execute a signed module, the permissions granted to the principal (using the GRANT statement) associated with the signing certificate are temporarily UNION-ed into your run-time security token for the duration of the call.

Laurentiu Cristofor’s blog : Basic SQL Server Security concepts - ownership chaining: good and evil; schemas - The bad aspect of OC is the fact that it weakens the semantics of a deny… With the introduction of module signing in SQL Server 2005, it is now possible to associate permissions with a module, which allows more granular access control than OC could prov

Laurentiu Cristofor’s blog : SQL Server 2005: Example for how to allow a user to encrypt but not decrypt - We can do this by encapsulating the encryption function and the opening of the key within a procedure that has permissions to do these operations (through signing) and by granting EXECUTE permission on this procedure to the user.

SQL Server Security : OPEN SYMMETRIC KEY scope in SQL Server - Explains how symmetric keys can leak from a usp/udf etc if not closed.

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EncryptByPassphrase Encryption Algorithm - This blog enry shows how to confirm that EncyptByPassphrase, EBP for short, uses triple DES and also passes along a little bit of other info about symmetric encryption in SQL Server.

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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Security White Papers -

MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 4.5.5 mysqlimport � A Data Import Program - The mysqlimport client provides a command-line interface to the LOAD DATA INFILE SQL statement. Most options to mysqlimport correspond directly to clauses of LOAD DATA INFILE syntax.

MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 6.2.17 Speed of INSERT Statements - The time required for inserting a row is determined by the following factors, where the numbers indicate approximate proportions…

MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 11.2.5 LOAD DATA INFILE Syntax - The LOAD DATA INFILE statement reads rows from a text file into a table at a very high speed.

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