I could actually see how this happens these days, especially when working on a big enough team with dedicated Database engineers. In the old days, I'd definitel

I could actually see how this happens these days, especially when working on a big enough team with dedicated Database engineers. In the old days, I'd definitely be writing my own stored procs and embedded SQL in code, etc. Then I worked for several years on teams with dedicated data gurus. When we'd hit some performance thing that would need tweaked, they'd write a stored procedure for it, and we'd just call it from the middleware. I've seen this type of team composition on both .NET and Java platforms, with and without the use of ORMS. It all depends on the coverage of your server-side web engineers...some will go deeper into the JavaScript/UI, some go deeper into the data-model.