A developer shares a war story about a system with over 6,000 tightly coupled SQL stored procedures containing business logic, causing performance issues and deadlocks. They question whether this anti-pattern is more common than expected after hearing similar experiences from other developers.
An argument against using stored procedures in applications, contending that they provide no benefits over parameterized queries executed directly from application code while introducing unnecessary complexity and version management issues.
A game developer describes converting a hardcoded turn-based combat system into a database-driven architecture, allowing designers to create and modify abilities as data configurations rather than code, eliminating the need for constant engineering involvement in playtests.