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revscat on Sept 21, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)

So? Stored procedures suck. There are good reasons they have never seen serious traction and are infrequently used to the point of being irrelevant.

_glsb on Sept 21, 2019 | [–]

Major international banks have entire payment systems implemented in PL/SQL. I’m talking 2-3kloc procedures and thousands of them.

Avamander on Sept 21, 2019 | [–]

That's what you think not having any knowledge of them. Many of the best and huge systems I've seen have been implemented in stored procedures.

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