Re:Obvious (Score 1)

Stored procedures are essential to any app that process large amounts of data. Otherwise you are left processing everything on the client side, much slower then on the database side. Plus when you get into working with the good stuff (oracle) you can do much more then just retrieve data like pass objects directly from java to the database. For smaller apps they may not be necessary, but any large scale operation wouldn't work w/o them...

my $0.02...