&gt; stored routines in a cloud DB<p>Application code in stored procedures? Is this still a thing? SQL2003 standard was completely into it with Java as stored procedures and XML, etc. - but wasn&#x27;t that just an enterprise fade with big expensive enterprise databases like Orcale&#x2F;DB2&#x2F;MSSQL?<p>It introduces a lot of headache if you update your code often - it&#x27;s already hard enough with schema changes, especially if you would like to be able to roll back faulty updates. Normal code is maintained a source code repository (GIT&#x2F;SVN), it can be edited, diffed and debugged using a common IDE.