> Several friends of mine commented how stored procedures were a disaster because they weren't kept in version control There are pre-made tools to do this, and

> Several friends of mine commented how stored procedures were a disaster because they weren't kept in version control There are pre-made tools to do this, and its relatively easy to author your own extracting of the DDL from all DB objects into a tree and commit them into revision control. There is little difference between SQL and other languages in this context.