[KingOfCoders]

Yes, it feels dated since JDBC brought prepared statements into the mainstream literally decades ago. Though I have seen this still happening from marketing hiring external marketing agencies to write some small apps for them, e.g. a web game for grabbing email addresses. Hopefully they don't have access to your main database (though I have seen this in startups too, because fast,fast,fast).

[pjmlp]

ODBC, ADO and Perl DBI did it even earlier.

[KingOfCoders]

Agree, my first database driven website was with DBI (also writing the German Strato web and mail plattform) in the 90s with Hughes mSQL and Delphi ODBC, my feeling though was JDBC brought database driven websites to the mainstream.