>Erik, you really have a chip on your shoulder that you need to get rid of. The fact is it all goes to credibility. On one hand, you say that the need to do something is rare. Yet, you dont have the requisite experience to say whether it is a rare thing or not.

I don't have to be a professional drag racer to know that front engine dragsters are not used much any more. All I have to do is observe industry trends.

> I understand that you don't like me bringing up the experience issue. However, you brought it into the fold by a previous comment. I merely responded to it.

I have no problem with you bringing up my level of experience, only a problem with you using it as a debate point. Appeals to authority are not valid arguments.

>I will give you the same treatment as I have given others. When you don't have the experience that would otherwise be required to render an authoritative opinion, you should couch it as such. This way, the reader is properly informed.

Again, I don't mind anyone knowing exactly where my experience lies. but I don't think that experience or lack of should be used as a debate point. If it was, why debate at all? Why couldn't we just always assume person x is right? It seems that you would rather people not questions any of your assertions because of the number of stripes on your shoulder. Seriously- _Is_ that what you want?

>The fact is, I have stored procs all over the place that return 2, 3, and one that returns 4 output parameters. Depending on how the proc is called, any number of them may or may not have values in them.

Ok, this is the point that I was suggesting that you should have raised initially. Not to dwell to much on the 'rare' issue (is that what were talking about this time? :-)), but I did say _relatively_ rare. I see, for instance, that not a single SP in your DataClas sample database returns more than one output parameter, and most don't return any. In all of my personal experience as well as all the samples and tutorials from MS and other parties that I have seen, none employ multiple output parameters. I didn't say nobody uses them, I said that I think that the practice is _relatively_ rare.

>So with that said ERik, next time, don't let your lack of experience substract value from the debate by rendering an opinion that has little or no value.

Gimme a break.

>If you don't want your experience to be a topic of debate - the lack of it or otherwise -don't make an issue of it.

That's just it- experience is _not_ the topic of the debate.

> And, as an MVP, I hold you to a higher standard.

okey dokey.