[tshaddox]

True, of course. There were also undoubtedly a lot of production systems that didn’t even use version control for non-database code. Industry practices certainly evolve over time. But it’s difficult to imagine a scenario where a team is aware of version control, uses it for the things they realize are code, but somehow doesn’t realize that stored procedures are code.

[tormeh]

I know a place that operated like this for years, so I don’t have to imagine.

[tstrimple]

These sorts of places also tend to have database admins in one team and programmers in another team. All database changes go through the database team with tickets or whatever. It's a huge pain in the ass to navigate and enable quick changes.