A Decision Framework (and When to Stop Arguing)
This is the finale of the “Where Does Business Logic Live?” series. Over five posts we have looked at , the , the , the reality, and the . Now let’s make it actionable. This…
Security, Misconceptions, and Hybrid Architectures
This is Part 5 of the “Where Does Business Logic Live?” series. We have made the , the , and the comparison. Three things remain before we can build a decision framework: how security actually…
The Case for Business Logic in Stored Procedures
This is the second post in the “Where Does Business Logic Live?” series. In I laid out the terms of the debate and split “business logic” into five different kinds of logic that behave very…
Where Does Business Logic Live? A DBA’s Field Guide
Ask three experienced engineers where business logic belongs and you will get four answers, two raised voices, and at least one person quoting a blog post from 2008. I have sat on both sides of…
Where Does Business Logic Live? A DBA’s Guide to the Stored-Procedures-vs-Application-Layers Debate
Few architecture questions generate more heat and less light than this one: should business logic live inside SQL Server stored procedures, or outside the database in application layers? Ask a room of developers and DBAs…