I'm trying to figure out what kind of code duplication that you'd be dealing with that you can get around by avoid stored procedures. Unless you're relying on a

I'm trying to figure out what kind of code duplication that you'd be dealing with that you can get around by avoid stored procedures. Unless you're relying on an ORM to construct your queries for you, you're going to have SQL queries somewhere in your code. It's either going to be stored in application code or in the database but either way you're going to have the same problem.