Never understood what's the thing with stored procedures. You soon find that an indeterminate amount of your business logic is written in stored procedures, and

Never understood what's the thing with stored procedures. You soon find that an indeterminate amount of your business logic is written in stored procedures, and in an opaque language that is fit for manipulating data, not for implementing business logic; not to mention the annoyance of running updates on the database, which works ina fundamentally different way from deployable code.