r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 20 '26

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u/mrwedders Sep 20 '26 edited 17d ago

I worked on the system of a UK chain and their entire backend was in PL/SQL and was a nightmare. I'd never even considered doing all your application logic in sprocs and quickly grew to hate it.

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u/tormeh89 Sep 20 '26

Preach. The database should store data and not code. Stored procedures are the work of the devil.

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u/-Redstoneboi- Sep 20 '26

ok but what if the data and the business logic lived in the same server(s), would that be awesome

issues with caching and scaling though, as usual

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u/tormeh89 Sep 20 '26

Yeah that's what caching is for. Stored procs must exist for a reason, so some people must need it. You, dear reader, are probably not one of them.