• Unfortunately, MS has not provided us, the DBA's, a good way of actually seeing what SQL is actually being executed by sp_execute.  This makes troubleshooting and optimization very difficult at best and sometimes impossible.  This reason alone is enough to tell our developers not to use prepared statements.

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