I had that same machine, an RCA COSMAC ELF--from an ad in Popular Electronics! Then an IMSAI 8080.  Sounds like we ate a lot of the same electrons...

This was a "feature" of the 2nd or 3rd PC I owned--I have kept the badge around for sentimental reasons:

rsingh84 (3/4/2008)

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I am quite surprised that someone thinks querystring based queries are faster than compiled queries.

Cliff - in your example, you will mostlikely have same performace as a compiled SP...

I have found dynamic SQL statements to be faster in many situations where the exact nature (and number, when using optional parameters) of passed parameters is unknown at the time...