I stand corrected. Please accept my apologies for my phrasing which now appears to me as ungracious. I truly wish your company great success!

The point I really wish to make is that this architecture has only one scaling solution...scale up.

Other options allow both scaling up and out. Other individuals have brought out other benefits for continuing to do the work outside of SQL Server, so I won't expand here.

Again, please continue to post...you did a great job communicating the problem and the solution.

I post daily at http://www.sswug.org and have found you need to have thick skin. I highly value comments from others. Not everyone is going to agree with you. In fact, your own opinion is likely to change over time and as you have different experiences.

Cheers,

Ben