> You can think of a relational database as a service (microservice?) that speaks SQL Exactly. As a colleague of mine once said: stored procedures are the orig

> You can think of a relational database as a service (microservice?) that speaks SQL Exactly. As a colleague of mine once said: stored procedures are the original microservices. A bit tongue-in-cheek, but the point is you can treat stored procs as these lightweight services. You don't even have to write the SQL, just call the procs with the right arguments. That's one scenario, anyway.