I see databases in general get a lot of flack from developers for this reason, when on the other side of the fence I see a lot of really smart people misunderst

I see databases in general get a lot of flack from developers for this reason, when on the other side of the fence I see a lot of really smart people misunderstanding the tool (as your example alludes to.) I have often come to a stored procedure and not returned 100x, but more like 50,000x by simply changing a few lines of code. tl;dr anyone can write slow code in any language.