Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Luis Cazares - Tuesday, October 10, 2017 12:19 PM

    Thom A - Tuesday, October 10, 2017 11:45 AM

    Jeff Moden - Tuesday, October 10, 2017 11:14 AM

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Tuesday, October 10, 2017 8:27 AM

    This was interesting. CSV Injection: http://georgemauer.net/2017/10/07/csv-injection.html

    Wow!  Just ... WOW!  Thanks for posting that.

    I had a go at this with the calc injection. Excel did warn me, which is good, and I therefore had the option. For it not to happen. I wonder, however, what might happen in different environments. I can imagine Excel 2007 not being as clever.

    Are people still using Office 2007?

    Holy ____!!!!  Steve, thank you very much for posting this.  Wow!  It looks like I'm going to have some work to do.

  • It's not that alarming, but it is interesting. Especially if you export from your db for import into Excel. The issue is a 2nd level injection, potentially running code that could cause an issue by putting values in the db that get exported to Excel.

  • Luis Cazares - Tuesday, October 10, 2017 12:19 PM

    Thom A - Tuesday, October 10, 2017 11:45 AM

    Jeff Moden - Tuesday, October 10, 2017 11:14 AM

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Tuesday, October 10, 2017 8:27 AM

    This was interesting. CSV Injection: http://georgemauer.net/2017/10/07/csv-injection.html

    Wow!  Just ... WOW!  Thanks for posting that.

    I had a go at this with the calc injection. Excel did warn me, which is good, and I therefore had the option. For it not to happen. I wonder, however, what might happen in different environments. I can imagine Excel 2007 not being as clever.

    Are people still using Office 2007?

    People are still running SQL Server 2000 and Windows XP. Wouldn't surprise me if people are still using Office 2007.

    Thom~

    Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
    Larnu.uk

  • Thom A - Wednesday, October 11, 2017 1:42 AM

    Luis Cazares - Tuesday, October 10, 2017 12:19 PM

    Thom A - Tuesday, October 10, 2017 11:45 AM

    Jeff Moden - Tuesday, October 10, 2017 11:14 AM

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Tuesday, October 10, 2017 8:27 AM

    This was interesting. CSV Injection: http://georgemauer.net/2017/10/07/csv-injection.html

    Wow!  Just ... WOW!  Thanks for posting that.

    I had a go at this with the calc injection. Excel did warn me, which is good, and I therefore had the option. For it not to happen. I wonder, however, what might happen in different environments. I can imagine Excel 2007 not being as clever.

    Are people still using Office 2007?

    People are still running SQL Server 2000 and Windows XP. Wouldn't surprise me if people are still using Office 2007.

    Many have moved, but I do know of one company that's using Office 2003.  Thankfully, I don't work there. 😛

  • Ed Wagner - Wednesday, October 11, 2017 5:13 AM

    Thom A - Wednesday, October 11, 2017 1:42 AM

    People are still running SQL Server 2000 and Windows XP. Wouldn't surprise me if people are still using Office 2007.

    Many have moved, but I do know of one company that's using Office 2003.  Thankfully, I don't work there. 😛

    I would think that staying that far behind requires more work than an actual migration. At least for workstations.

    Luis C.
    General Disclaimer:
    Are you seriously taking the advice and code from someone from the internet without testing it? Do you at least understand it? Or can it easily kill your server?

    How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help: Option 1 / Option 2
  • Thom A - Wednesday, October 11, 2017 1:42 AM

    Luis Cazares - Tuesday, October 10, 2017 12:19 PM

    Thom A - Tuesday, October 10, 2017 11:45 AM

    Jeff Moden - Tuesday, October 10, 2017 11:14 AM

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Tuesday, October 10, 2017 8:27 AM

    This was interesting. CSV Injection: http://georgemauer.net/2017/10/07/csv-injection.html

    Wow!  Just ... WOW!  Thanks for posting that.

    I had a go at this with the calc injection. Excel did warn me, which is good, and I therefore had the option. For it not to happen. I wonder, however, what might happen in different environments. I can imagine Excel 2007 not being as clever.

    Are people still using Office 2007?

    People are still running SQL Server 2000 and Windows XP. Wouldn't surprise me if people are still using Office 2007.

    I was talking with a friend at the last SQLBits - he's still got some servers running SQL 6.5

    Thomas Rushton
    blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

  • That's a handy little node Microsoft have added to SSMS (17.3). They've put "XE profiler" at the bottom of the objects for a serve. Effectively does the job of profiler via Extended Events (but, obviously isn't using profiler). A nice little feature, and much easier to use than having to create an Extended Events for something you don't already have set up (and don't need long term so remove afterwards).

    Thom~

    Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
    Larnu.uk

  • SSC has been very laggy for me in the last couple of days. Anyone else experiencing that?

    The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
    - Martin Rees
    The absence of consumable DDL, sample data and desired results is, however, evidence of the absence of my response
    - Phil Parkin

  • Phil Parkin - Thursday, October 12, 2017 9:23 AM

    SSC has been very laggy for me in the last couple of days. Anyone else experiencing that?

    Yep. Around lunch time (BST) it wouldn't even load the forums. Doesn't seem to effect the main site though, only the forums.

    Thom~

    Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
    Larnu.uk

  • Yeah, sporadic for me. I wonder if we have a noisy neighbor. I did ask the devs to dig in. There was a regex change, I'm logging a ticket to see if that's an issue.

    Our IT  head added some  VM resources (CPU/RAM) to the system. I've noticed some slowness for admin stuff when the site seems to work, and vice versa. Strange for sure.

  • Thom A - Thursday, October 12, 2017 9:29 AM

    Phil Parkin - Thursday, October 12, 2017 9:23 AM

    SSC has been very laggy for me in the last couple of days. Anyone else experiencing that?

    Yep. Around lunch time (BST) it wouldn't even load the forums. Doesn't seem to effect the main site though, only the forums.

    Maybe the underlying database needs some performance tuning😀
    😎

  • Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Thursday, October 12, 2017 9:49 AM

    Yeah, sporadic for me. I wonder if we have a noisy neighbor. I did ask the devs to dig in. There was a regex change, I'm logging a ticket to see if that's an issue.

    Our IT  head added some  VM resources (CPU/RAM) to the system. I've noticed some slowness for admin stuff when the site seems to work, and vice versa. Strange for sure.

    Sometimes for me as well, but not all the time.  Thanks, Phil.  I'm glad someone else noticed and it wasn't just me.

  • Things need tuning for sure, though this is a third party app, so @#%$!@#%$%#$

    Am going to try and find time to tune this next year and submit PRs to the vendor for inclusion in their updates. Need to let one patch go through this fall and then work on cleaning things up.

  • Eirikur Eiriksson - Thursday, October 12, 2017 10:21 AM

    Thom A - Thursday, October 12, 2017 9:29 AM

    Phil Parkin - Thursday, October 12, 2017 9:23 AM

    SSC has been very laggy for me in the last couple of days. Anyone else experiencing that?

    Yep. Around lunch time (BST) it wouldn't even load the forums. Doesn't seem to effect the main site though, only the forums.

    Maybe the underlying database needs some performance tuning😀
    😎

    If I recall, isn't SSC still on SQL Server 2008? :hehe:

    Thom~

    Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
    Larnu.uk

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