| Operator | Example | Purpose | |----------|---------|---------| | intitle:index.of | intitle:index.of "database.sql.zip" | Finds directory listings with that phrase in the title | | inurl:backup | inurl:backup "sql.zip" | Finds backup directories | | filetype:sql | filetype:sql "zip" "index of" | Finds SQL files inside a zip directory index | | -inurl:html | -inurl:html -inurl:htm databasesqlzip1 | Excludes regular web pages |

A high-quality SQL dump includes START TRANSACTION and COMMIT around every 10,000 rows. If you see raw INSERT statements without transaction boundaries, the archive is low quality and will fail on restore.

These search engines index open web directories directly. Example query on Shodan: http.title:"Index of" http.html:"sql.zip"

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