Stored procedures or OR mappers?

Question

Which is better? Or use and OR mapper with SP\'s? If you have a system with SP\'s already, is an OR mapper worth it?

Answer 1

There is nothing good to be said about stored procedures. There were a necessity 10 years ago but every single benefit of using sprocs is no longer valid. The two most common arguments are regarding security and performance. The "sending stuff over the wire" crap doesn't hold either, I can certainly create a query dynamically to do everything on the server too. One thing the sproc proponents won't tell you is that it makes updates impossible if you are using column conflict resolution on a merge publication. Only DBAs who think they are the database overlord insist on sprocs because it makes their job look more impressive than it really is.