5 Benefits of Using Stored Procedures in Database Administration

1. Simplify complex operations by encapsulating processing in easily adaptable units. 2. Since a series of processing steps are not required to be repeatedly established, data consistency is guaranteed. If all developers and applications use the same stored procedure, the code used is the same. An extension of this is error prevention. The more steps that need to be performed, the greater the chance of error. Error prevention ensures data consistency. 3. Simplify the management of changes. If the table names, column names, or business logic (or whatever) changes, just change the code of the stored procedure. People using it don't even need to know about the changes. An extension of this is security. Restricting access to underlying data through stored procedures reduces the chance of data corruption (unintentional or otherwise). 4. Because stored procedures are usually stored in compiled form, less work is done by the DBMS to process commands. The result is improved performance. 5. There are some SQL elements and features that can only be used in a single request, and stored procedures can use them to write more functional and flexible code. In short, there are three main benefits of using stored procedures, namely simplicity, security, and high performance.