Peter revisits an earlier tip on how to use stored procedures to speed up your code. This version makes your stored procedures simpler … though you may have to write a little more code to make the ...

Stored procedures can speed up your code by reducing trips to your database -- even if you only have one SQL statement to execute. Here's how to speed up your application (and how to simplify your ...

So, what do non-.NET people use for this type of thing, or is that like not even something to ask - as in nobody using php or pylons or any other such framework uses stored procs?