Simon Willison’s Weblog

Windows Server and SQL Server on EC2 (via) 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).

# 23rd October 2008, 3:54 pm / open-source, cloud-computing, ec2, pricing, sqlserver, windows

Mass Attack FAQ. 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.

# 26th April 2008, 9:12 am / iis, massattack, security, sql-injection, xss, sqlserver, sql

Django on IronPython. Dino Viehland demonstrated Django running on IronPython and SQL Server at PyCon.

# 17th March 2008, 4:05 pm / sqlserver, python, ironpython, pycon, microsoft, dinoviehland