Great points. If you exercise solid controls around your database operations, you "can" have a the same level of version control as you do on code outside of th

Great points. If you exercise solid controls around your database operations, you "can" have a the same level of version control as you do on code outside of the RDBMS. But "can" isn't the same as "will" -- in practice, there are practical issues that make this painful. The other point is that using advanced Oracle/DB2 features to accomplish things means that you need to keep some RDBMS high priests around. That means lots of money.