I’m super excited about this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, for a couple reasons. First of all, this month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Brad Schulz. Brad is a guy that I got to interview a couple years ago. Second, is that the topic is Sprox ‘n’ Funx (Stored Procedures and Functions). Which I like because the topic is nice and technical.
I started out thinking that I could treat the question “Are stored procedures a good thing?” But that issue is a contentious one and it would take a book to treat that issue properly (So maybe later)
Today, I’m giving some attention to some interesting numbers related to stored procedures (the format is taken from Harper’s Index a popular feature in Harper’s magazine)
Stored Procedures By The Numbers
250: The largest size in megabytes allowed for the source text of a stored procedure.
2,100: The largest number of parameters allowed for a stored procedure.
32: The maximum number of nested levels allowed for stored procedures.
1,598: The number of mentions in sys.messages that contain the word procedure.
858: The number of mentions for function.
389,000: The number of Google results for should use stored procedures.
29,500: The number of Google results reported for should not used stored procedures.
1 in 866: The odds that a random word taken from MichaelJSwart.com is procedure.
1 in 879: The odds that a random word taken from the 2011 State of the Union address is budget.
18: The number of participating blogs in Brad Schulz’ T-SQL Tuesday on the subject of stored procedures and functions.
1875: Earliest year I could find a published mention for the word sproc*
* ~ Lives of the Irish Saints (1875) mentions a St. Sproc daughter of Colum. I am not making that up!
