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> Is there any good reason to use stored procedures in 2026?

more unhinged HN energy disconnected from reality

everyone who says "it's terrible to use these database features, this should all be application logic because... testing, and $reasons" seem to be from people who are NoSQL-brained and can't escape it

@feld maybe it depends on the features. When I was a DBA the programmers (ok, I also programmed too) avoided many database features. Stored procedures were harder to upgrade and were slower. There was a dream of being cross DB compatible too by sticking to the SQL standards as much as possible. We’d lived through many tech changes and wanted to minimize work if it’d be needed again.

@drewdaniels stored procedures were slower? Weird, doing that work in the database should be *faster* than doing it in the application layer.