What are the disadvantages of using stored procedures?
- Vendor Lock-In: Stored procedures use database-specific syntax, making it harder
to migrate to different database platforms.
- Complexity: As business logic grows within stored procedures, they can become
difficult to maintain and debug.
- Performance: While stored procedures can be optimized, poorly written ones can
hurt performance.
- Limited Flexibility: Stored procedures are less flexible compared to application
code, and they cannot easily handle more complex logic that might be easier in a
high-level programming language.
- Testing: Stored procedures are harder to test and debug in isolation compared to
application code.