Waiting for the big clash, England vs India. Well so much has been talked and written about the fixture, would be sad if rain washes it out. Sticking to the optimistic line lez hope it doesnt rain and we get to see quite and interesting fixture. To start Michael Vaughn would be cursing rain gods for the outcome of the last fixture, but does he has any right to do that ? Looking at quite an mediocre play that was put by the English side ( except of course by Kevin ) the result was quite apt.
Same performance against any other formidable team and Michael would have ended up on the loosing side, no wonder last ashes was a 5-0 whitewash for aussies. India on other hand didn't performed that badly, yes they ended up on the verge of loosing, but that was no surprise for the Indian cricket followers. There are a lot of positives for Indians from the last fixture and Kartick is definitely the biggest. Oozing with confidence and determination , has shielded the fragile Indian middle order very well. The moment of the match was definitely the wicket of Collignwood , the way he was dismissed exposed that Ganguly is not the only one whom you can bounce back to pavilion.
Another positive was the way big four played, agree they didn't managed any runs but they looked quite positive and confident in contrast to jaffer and probably all English batsman who managed big scores but were edgy throughout. So expect some runs from willows of Dravid, Sachin, Laxman and Saurav next time they step in to bat.
Yet another positive was the exposure of the English bowling. Indian were fresh and generally loose out their tour initial test matches within 4 days, that exposes lack of a bowler on english side who can run through the oppositon. Sidebottom and Anderson are fantastic bowlers but dont have the steam to last long. Monty, well he is a talented bowler and demands attention and respect of Indian batters but they are quite used to this quality of spin bowling.
Dhoni seems to have found his lost touch back and is all set for yet another big knock.

So in all we are in for a nerve wrecking match.

England
positives ...
Home Ground ..
Kevin .. and Paul Collignwood ( the FIGHTER )
negatives ...
Michael under presure ..............

India positives ...
Kartick and Dhoni back in form.
Bowling which has prooved to be handful.
The big four itching for runs.
Momentum
negatives ..
Bad record in english conditions ...

Anathema for Stored Procedures .....

Those in IT industry writing financial softwares know how evil yet useful stored procedures can be. Have you been in a situation wherein you have to improve the response time of your application involving execution of complex queries, but your manager says .. "No SPs here please". Although stored procedures are often viewed as the anathema of the “Write once, run anywhere” goal of Java, I have seen cases where an application that took 10–15 minutes to run as pure Java ran in well under 10 seconds with a stored procedure. The users of that system do not care about the purity of the application; they care about being able to use it to get their job done.

The question is how bad a situation has to be to force the use of SPs. SPs are useless or can even degrade the performance if used used for firing some simple queries, but can be an asset for handling any complicated business process, involving large number of complicated queries.

Guess experience comes in handy while identifying justified use of SPs, and considering how SPs behave on different platforms doing a bit of testing comes in handy before jumping into the final implementations.