>Stephen, are you directing your comments at me or somebody else? ;-) I'm the guy who pointed out the facts about SQL plans back in 2000 in the wiki and has been questioning the "SP is always better" ever since. ;-)

I wouldn't know that, sorry.

The SP was better when there was no real use of a middle tier. Many thought that they were N-Tier but in all reality they were 1.5 tiers at best. A GUI that did most of the work and a data tier that held data.

Today we know differently. :) Or at least we say we do.