[rpod]

That's an interesting perspective. Coming from a background of primarily developing backend services and using databases as a necessary tool, I usually approach it the other way and steer clear of stored procedures, triggers and the like. I guess it's also a matter of using the tools that you're most comfortable with.

[thorin]

Of course. At least in the UK and probably elsewhere large businesses, banks, government etc often have a large centralized systems based on a single or set of relational databases. A lot of the logic was controlled on the database either by constraints/checks etc or stored procedure access so it didn't have to to be replicated across the many disparate systems which connect to it. This is slowly changing, very slowly in some cases!

I can understand why that might be a surprise if you've been working for <10 years and mainly on new SAAS style products.