yo don't have stored procedures. everything is done in the code. so you only have 2 things to worry about (the db schema and the code). you still have the problem of the schema versioning but you only have to worry about 2 things
>>rantwa+(OP)
Now you have your answer: Just instead of deploying to an app server you deploy to your db server. Yet for some reason people forget everything they have learned once the term SQL comes up.