Benefits
One of the main reasons for using stored procedures is to reduce the network traffic in a distributed environment caused by client application programs that execute many remote SQL statements. Remote SQL statements can create many network send and receive operations to the server. A stored procedure can encapsulate many of the application's SQL statements into a single message to DB2, thus reducing network traffic.
Another reason for using stored procedures is to encapsulate a business function into a single module, coded once, and stored at the server for all processes to use. (See Figure 8-1.)
Figure 8-1. Stored procedure network improvements.
Additional Benefits
Some of the additional benefits of stored procedures include the following: ...
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