What's the point of a stored procedure?

Question

Are they useful for anything outside of a database administrator? If I understand them correctly it\'s merely queries that can be saved directly into MySQL, so it\'d be useless

Answer 1

Think of a stored procedures as a library function. Do you want to rewrite sqrt (for example) every time you have to compute a square root or would you rather call a function to do it?

That's the benefit (in a nutshell) of stored procedures.