For some kind of software, another call to the DB is the best way to add bog-standard functionality without adding complexity and failure modes. Granted, not f

For some kind of software, another call to the DB is the best way to add bog-standard functionality without adding complexity and failure modes. Granted, not for all software. And there's something to be said about a config file that you can just replace at deployment. But that's something that varies a lot from one environment to another.