How do you protect a server from SQL injection attacks?

There are many ways to protect your relational database from SQL injection attacks, but here are three very common ones. - **Prepared statements with parameterized queries.** This is probably the most effective way since it’s done by a library or framework, and all you have to do is write your queries leaving placeholders for where the data is meant to go, and then, in a separate place, provide the actual data. - **Use an ORM (Object-Relational Mapping).** These frameworks allow you to abstract the interaction with your database and create the SQL queries for you, taking into account all matters of security around that interaction. - **Escaping data.** If you want to do this manually, you can take care of escaping special characters that might break how you construct your SQL queries. Keeping a list of blacklisted characters to escape in this situation is a good idea, so you can programmatically go through them.

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