PHP and SQL Server can be made to get along, too, if you want to go that route, and the mssql_* functions have supported stored procedures for a long time. I generally use embedded with PHP+MySQL.

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Some of these queries takes 30 seconds to return to me, some are instantaneous and that's only during debug.<BR><BR>Would anyone care to suggest any plausible explanation for this phenomena ?