This is a pragmatic piece of Fowler on the rather dry topic of Object-relational mappings - in short, the attempt to marry an object-oriented code base with a relational data base.
Usually you’d get enough early success to commit deeply to the framework and only after a while did you realize you were in a quagmire - this is where I sympathize greatly with Ted Neward’s famous quote that object-relational mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science
What Fowler refers to here, is Ted Neward’s article “The Vietnam Of Computer Science”
That’s what I thought too: https://programming.dev/comment/22854391
But it seems to be possible to still do them wrong.
If you don’t use the parameter functionality of prepared statements, yeah. That also means you don’t use a prepared statement, you construct varying sql strings and prepare varying “prepared” statements.