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<code>Robert'); DROP TABLE students;--</code> also known as Little Bobby Tables is the youngest son of elite hacker [[Mrs. Roberts]]. His older sister is [[Elaine Roberts]]. He's known to not be very good at computers, and when first enrolled in school found a vulnerability in the parsing of student's names into the school's database when the school lost all the student records for the year.
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<code>Robert'); DROP TABLE students;--</code> also known as Little Bobby Tables is the youngest son of elite hacker [[Mrs. Roberts]]. His older sister is [[Elaine Roberts]]. His "full" name is known to cause problems with some computers. When he was first enrolled in school({{explain|327: Exploits of a Mom}}) it exploited a vulnerability in the parsing of student's names into the school's student database resulting in the school losing all the student records for the year.  In {{w|SQL}}, commands are separated by semicolons ";" and data is often quoted using single quotes -'-.  Commands may also be enclosed in parentheses '(' and ')'.  Data is stored in tables of similar items (e.g. "students") and individual entries are "rows" in the table.  To delete an entire table (and every row of data in that table), you use the command "DROP" (e.g. "DROP TABLE students").
  
 
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Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--
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Robert'); DROP TABLE students;-- also known as Little Bobby Tables is the youngest son of elite hacker Mrs. Roberts. His older sister is Elaine Roberts. His "full" name is known to cause problems with some computers. When he was first enrolled in school(xkcd 327: Exploits of a Mom) it exploited a vulnerability in the parsing of student's names into the school's student database resulting in the school losing all the student records for the year. In SQL, commands are separated by semicolons ";" and data is often quoted using single quotes -'-. Commands may also be enclosed in parentheses '(' and ')'. Data is stored in tables of similar items (e.g. "students") and individual entries are "rows" in the table. To delete an entire table (and every row of data in that table), you use the command "DROP" (e.g. "DROP TABLE students").