This would be the right way to go if: 1) Databases had a consistent language for storage procedures 2) It was sane The problem is that stored procedures work

This would be the right way to go if: 1) Databases had a consistent language for storage procedures 2) It was sane The problem is that stored procedures work differently in every database, and most have come up with crazy / stupid ways to do them. That's a fixable problem, but it has not been fixed.