Back in the day, around 1998/1999, Oracle had tools to develop Web-applications served directly from the database.

To produce HTML one would use a variety of PL/SQL functions, one function for each HTML tag that was available at the time.

The result was that each time I had to correct a spelling error, or change a portion of the page, I had find in the code where the change was to be applied, change the code, recompile the package, and then restart the service to have the changes come into effect.

Combine it with the fact that the code written was always much more verbose that writing straigth HTML, it got really old, really fast.

In the end, I created a micro-CMS where I put the HTML code as snippets in the database that I then combined in PL/SQL to form a page that could be served to a browser.

Changes appeared on the fly as I updated the HTML snippets, and the service had no downtime due to restarts.

Not long after, we moved to using Zope to develop more advaced solutions, but thats another story.

Now, this was a long time and 2 jobs ago :), but I am curious as to why in 2025, one would prefer to go to return these types of solutions.