Direct queries and ORM. A stored procedure doesn’t provide much value as a unit of abstraction that couldn’t just exist in the code.

If anything, it separates code from the data more as far as I can tell, so maybe I’m missing something?

Stored procedures are code – so you’re putting code in the database. How do you test that code? How do you source control that code? How do you roll back that code to the previous version or compare it to a previous version? How to know the history of that code? If that procedure is designed to work in together with application changes, how to test and deploy those together? This is all not impossible but it’s certainly more difficult and creates more potential failure points.

Also, if something is somewhat data driven and there’s a bug, you simply alter a procedure versus doing a build and deploy of the entire application.

That’s the problem. You write like that like it’s an advantage but you’re literally editing code live in production.

The performance advantages of stored procedures are unsupported. Most database engines do not treat stored procedures any differently than regular queries. And it’s not that stored procedures aren’t optimized, it’s that queries are equally optimized.

Fortune 250 on down has used stored procedures with applications and it seems extremely clean and performance-oriented.

A lot of these companies also still use COBOL on mainframes (something I’ve actually worked on and don’t recommend either). Stored procedures made a lot more sense historically when SQL might actually have more expressive power than your programming language and when database interfaces were much complicated and non-standard.

I use Windows 11 – mildly modified – StartAllBack for a proper start menu and taskbar experience. I have it pretty much exactly as I want it without any annoyances.

I’m perfectly comfortable with Linux but I feel the same as you about using it on the desktop for all the same reasons.

This my hot take: Do not use stored procedures with applications. Keep your data separate from your code.

CNN reported on it: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/tech/twitter-top-advertiser-decline/index.html

Exceptions are fancy returns. Everything else is fancy goto, including returns…

They have hundreds of mobile developers and can’t make a decent app or features anyone wants – I’m going to guess that whatever executive pet project that one is won’t ever see any reasonable output either.

I played the crap out this game as kid… abusing the track builder as much as possible.

People forget that there wasn’t even a mass exodus from Digg. Although we can pinpoint the exact day that Digg killed itself, it actually took a long time for everyone to eventually leave. People hedged their bets between platforms – just as many people are doing now between Reddit and all the new alternatives.

This week on Lemmy actually feels very different from last week. There’s some sort of critical mass that has been hit even if it’s just some minuscule tiny fraction of the total traffic of Reddit.

Reddit basically had a monopoly – given how quickly things are moving on Lemmy and other sites – I think that monopoly is over. It’s still a bit too chaotic here for a major mass move but there’s now so much more interesting content. People will eventually figure out how to make these sites competitive now that there is so much interest.

It’s at that point that things will really change.

The problem is the government has been protecting/supporting one group for a long time to the point that everything is now “too big to fail”. Government continue to create investment materials that can’t fail – and anything that can’t fail will create a bubble and destroy everything else. That investment in Canada was housing. Now it’s like over half our GDP is housing investment. And why invest in anything else? Nothing else is as risk free.

I feel like the collapse is never going to come.

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