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Years ago, mid-90's, I visited Compuserve in Ohio. The web was just getting going and one of the engineers I met there showed off a music store he was building
by markbnj 3y ago
Years ago, mid-90's, I visited Compuserve in Ohio. The web was just getting going and one of the engineers I met there showed off a music store he was building by returning html from SQL stored procedures :).
- bsdpufferfish 3y agoThe quality of open source databases with views, partitions, etc as well as improvements in server hardware have made this approach much more appealing.
- est 3y agoif you think about it, serverless lambdas are just stored procedures with bells and wistles.
- icedchai 3y agoLambdas feel more like CGI scripts. Too bad they didn't just use the CGI standard instead of something proprietary.
- lemper 3y agoif you think about it, php is just stored procedure with bells and whistles.
- est 3y agonah you have to worry about deployments of where .php were placed and mod_php and php-fpm stuff. DB can scale and you don't have to worry where SP were executed.
- agumonkey 3y agoI have a huge feeling there will be a compressive period after the sort of cambrian explosion we've seen in the last decade.. everybody do very similar things, spread across N layers just so you can modify a bunch of rows in db. Mind boggling.
- j-a-a-p 3y agoYes, we had that at Oracle as a product. SQL + PL/SQL = HTML. It also had a built in versioning that if two users would change the same record it would moan.