>>I just wanted to add (for the benefit of others) that using SP's for all data access in a client/server application is considered a "best practice" methodology.
By whom? And when you say "all data access", are you sure you mean "all"?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1