I don't buy it. Change the data structures around in a significant way and hide it all with stored procs? You'd end up with something messy and slow, just like all of those awful "we'll fix it with a view" solutions.

Many DBAs are reluctant to give out permission for developers to modify stored procs. They see it as a way to make sure that all SQL is filtered through them. The problem is, they tend not to have any time to look at your SQL either, so the vetting process becomes a bottleneck.

That sort of thing can be fixed, albeit slowly and painfully, but it doesn't change the fact that stored procs normally use crippled languages. I wouldn't want to use them for anything with actual programming logic in it.

In reply to Re^3: No stored procedure bashing on my watch! by perrin
in thread Recoding a multi-sql-statement storedProc transaction in a script by punkish

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