I'm not really sure I understand the need for this. (Maybe this is because I only make "tiny Apache applications" and not Enterprise-grade stuff, as one of my

I'm not really sure I understand the need for this. (Maybe this is because I only make "tiny Apache applications" and not Enterprise-grade stuff, as one of my day-job Senior Lead Technical Architects told me today.) Is it not the case that you can already do all of this by granting appropriate privileges and/or by exposing stored procedures?