I solved a similar problem before. Some developers for a 3rd party developed front end code that passed 250,000 individual inserts as part of an "initialization" for a new "project" in the code. After looking at their code, it turned out that the front end code was doing all of that work based on just 4 parameters. I wrote a proc to do the same thing that the front end code was doing and it ran in sub second times not to mention preventing a meltdown of the copper between the front end and the server. 😛