https://www.webmaster-forums.net/crss/node/1005918 en https://www.webmaster-forums.net/web-database-development/stored-procedures#comment-1031566 <p>RC,</p> <p>Stored Procedures are mostly for DB Servers like SQL, Oracle, Sybase etc. Since they run without any user interaction they need to run on a server type db.</p> <p>They can be used for things like cleanup duty (delete all records from last week), archive duty (backup all records from last week to backup table),bad record check (delete records where whatever is no good), and lots of other stuff.</p> <p>Granted you can do all this stuff manually with web pages but it's totally automated with stored procedures.</p> <p>Regards,<br /> Peter J. Boettcher</p> Mon, 08 May 2000 19:17:00 +0000 Peter J. Boettcher comment 1031566 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net