What's the point of a stored procedure?

Question

Are they useful for anything outside of a database administrator? If I understand them correctly it\'s merely queries that can be saved directly into MySQL, so it\'d be useless

Answer 1

Stored procedures have lots of benefits. Among other things they help decouple application code from the database tables, simplify database maintenance and versioning and help take the best advantage of DBMS features such as query parameterisation, optimisation and security.

it'd be useless for any web development team to use them

Huh? Stored procedures are extremely useful for any developers who need to use a database that supports them.