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You Can Now Code Websites with SQL

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pfft, welcome to the 90s :-D https://docs.oracle.com/cd/A97630_01/appdev.920/a96590/adgwe...

with an especial nod to

> This kind of dynamic content is different from dynamic HTML (DHTML)

I only know about this nonsense by evaluating it as an alternative to .idc/.htx files https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/iis/6.0-... waay back when

I also remember Internet Explorer allowed for web pages to talk directly to sql server via an ActiveX control. Tried it out once locally. Was both interesting and terrifying.

Well, yeah, I'm sure one can talk directly to Oracle with an <object> tag, too (probably painlessly from wasm in modern browsers) since running random code is random

You could also expose MSSQL from IIS (what a great idea! /s). In one edition of MSDN Magazine an author combined this with XSLT to make a website.

everything old is new again.

Related: "Web development platform built entirely in PostgreSQL" - https://github.com/aquametalabs/aquameta

Erm: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e41502/adfns...

I only knew about the HTP stored-proc package but your link introduced me to a new horror: PL/SQL Server Pages (PSP) <https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e41502/adfns...> but I wasn't able to readily spot when they were introduced (that link is for 11gR2)

... mildly off topic, but I also had flashbacks reading your link due to the seeing that XDB HTTP port output, as I had a file stashed away in Dropbox for disabling the XDB HTTP listener due to it eating :8080 on my machine during reinstalls. Good times that I hope to never, ever revisit :-/

Reminds me of this classic April Fool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_PK1eDQyVg

If you turn your head sideways and squint a little it looks a little like functional react using SQL syntax to replace JSX

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