to use stored procedure or not to use that is the question

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Hi all I am building an windows application which makes use of sql server express edition. The scenario is sql server express will not be running on dedicated servers but on regular desktops(may be a dedicated desktop).

should I use stored procedures in this scenario or should I offload the stored proc related tasks to the Business logic layer which runs on the client machine which makes the call to the sql express.

when can I expect good performance
while using sp or while running the code from the BL layer.

Posted 3-Dec-09 6:45am

jarajeshwaran

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If you don't use stored procs, it shouldn't affect performance, but if you don't, then at least write a data layer to hold and abstract out all your database access.

Posted 3-Dec-09 7:19am

Christian Graus

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AspDotNetDev · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-03T09:27:00

If you are running SQL Server on the client machine, I recommend you use SQL Server CE, as it does not require an installation beyond the .Net Framework. Since SQL Server CE does not support stored procedures, I would then not use them.

If, however, you really do plan on using SQL Server Express, then I'd say there are few disadvantages to using stored procedures, so you might as well use them. For one, you get optimizations (e.g., cached query plans) that are sometimes not there with plain queries. However, if performance is not a much of a concern, then plain queries may be just fine.

Naturally, you should write a data access layer around your SP's or your queries... either way, the caller of your data access layer should not be aware of the underlying SQL.