Web services or stored procedure or both

I found two very good articles/blogs covering the debate between the use of web services and stored procedures (or both)

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/10/who-needs-stored-procedures-anyways.html

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/12/my-database-is-a-web-service.html

You must also read the comments to see the arguments in favor of the author and against him.