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Re:Ask HN: Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have... by pmichaud on Thursday June 04, 2009 @04:41PM (#642165)
The alternatives are not

1) Sproc 2) Scattered around the app haphazardly

The only apps I've seen use the BLL-as-an-sproc trick were written by people without any experience writing scalable code at a real company.

Re:Ask HN: Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have... by gaius on Friday June 05, 2009 @01:47AM (#642755)
Really? Most of my experience is on trading systems handling thousands of real-money transactions per second, and stored procedures are the only proven approach.