You Can Now Code Websites with SQL

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/87-web-development/16545-you-can-now-code-websites-with-sql.html

by EntICOnc • 3 years ago

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mdaniel3• 3 years ago

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

bashmelek• 3 years ago

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.

mdaniel3• 3 years ago

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

zamalek• 3 years ago

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.

znpy• 3 years ago

everything old is new again.

blarnopre• 3 years ago

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

llimos• 3 years ago

Reminds me of this classic April Fool:

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

bdavbdav• 3 years ago

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

mdaniel3• 3 years ago

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 :-/

Nextgrid• 3 years ago

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

You Can Now Code Websites with SQL

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