At the MVP Summit last month, there was great concern among SQL Server MVPs who are also DBAs that developers will put in SPs that they have no idea what they do, so your concerns do have merit.

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>This is one of my biggest fears. I'll get a call to go to a client that is having performance problems and find a bunch of stored procedures written in COBOL ;-)
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>Actually the one flaw in this thought is the assumption that the SQL Server would be open other besides the DBAs. This is very rare. Most customers lock down their SQL Server such that only DBAs have access.
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>-Mike
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