OK. The place I was working in Baton Rouge was a pretty serious SQL Server shop and their DBAs specifically forbade sp_ prefixes. And they were potentates -- nothing went into production without their approval.

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>I think it originally did, but many people started using sp_ against recommendations, so they started to be called system procedures.
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>>I have always understood the sp_ to stand for stored procedure.