Regarding a db<>fiddle like this: https://dbfiddle.uk/?rdbms=oracle_18&fiddle=ceb321a925e6328c5d4103f80503ded3

DB<>Fiddle Markdown:

We can hit the markdown link which generates the following content (which is very handy for SE and TA posts):

<!-- -->

select 1 from dual

xxxxxxxxxx

 

select 1 from dual

<pre>

1
1

</pre>

<!-- -->

select 2 from dual

xxxxxxxxxx

 

select 2 from dual

<pre>

2
2

</pre>

db<>fiddle here

My take:

With that said, I don’t think I understand why there’s so much “fluff” in the formatting. Why are these things necessary?

• <!-- -->
• <pre>
• >

From the outside looking in, I would have thought formatting like this might be more practical:

xxxxxxxxxx

 select 1 from dual

xxxxxxxxxx

 select 2 from dual

Question:

My experience has been that people often remove the extra fluff when using the markdown content. If that’s the case, then I wonder, what’s the intended purpose of that extra markdown formatting?