Stored Procedures - End of days

Question

I’m listening to the Hanselminutes Podcast; \"StackOverflow uses ASP.NET MVC - Jeff Atwood and his technical team\". During the course of the Podcast they are speaking about SQL

Answer 1

I might add that some work be better done at the DB level.
e.g. Cross tab results in SQL 2005, Recursive queries.

I agree that some of the simple stuff such as SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE can be taken care of by ORM, Linq.

So, it is stupid to say that days of stored procedures are over.
How many people really have to worry about DB platform changes (SQL to Mysql, Oracle)?