I'm sure we've all heard, over and over, that inline SQL is generally a bad practice, and that we should use Stored Procedures when possible. But let's be realistic for a minute. Who wants to write a stupid stored procedure for every stupid little simple query needed. Like, for example, this query from an actual, production, report-producin' web page:

See how easy that was? For cryin' out loud, do we really need to write a Stored Procedure for something like that? It's only 156 lines or so. Stored Procedurers are for suckers!


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