When developing stored procedures, there seems to be a lot of emphasis on ''get it done fast.'' Which means type all lower case, pay little attention to formatting, and sometimes throw best practices out the window. Personally, I would rather front-load my development time; I think that the costs I pay in initial development far outweigh what ...

Earlier today, Will Sullivan posted a blog entry, My Statement on Stored Procedures, in which he emphatically states his official opinion of stored procedures as: ''I prefer not to use them.'' He then goes about dismissing most of the misinformation about why stored procedures are better than ad-hoc (parameterized) queries. The first bit of ...