Comment by beachy

I have the same memories from many years of working with stored procedures - although you should certainly have been using source control.

But nothing quite matches the satisfaction of someone in a far off engineering group reporting a problem that prevented them from committing data that would have corrupted the database - because your referential integrity constraints protected the database.

In the age of AI and a massive explosion of code touching the database, maybe it makes even more sense to embed logic and constraints inside the database where there's no way to get around them.