Assuming all of your clients are all server-side (ie, servlets) and are also in source control, this should not be an issue. Source control isn't the issue (of

Assuming all of your clients are all server-side (ie, servlets) and are also in source control, this should not be an issue. Source control isn't the issue (of course everything is also in source control, this isn't the dark ages). I'm talking about a pretty common scenario where you have one SQL server and 4 web servers acting as clients. Let's say you want to do a zero-downtime rolling deployment and upgrade the web servers one at a time while the other 3 continue to run. This is a real issue that I encountered on multiple projects that were adhering to the "everything must be in sprocs" dogma. Moving to ORMs and parameterized queries saves a lot of headaches.