in reply to Perl and MS SQL 2k5 procs

Hmmm ... for MSSQL 2005, I cannot specifically say but for Sybase (which for our purposes is pretty much the same thing), you just call it like any other piece of SQL. The thing(s) to worry about:

that being said, if your stored proc does the normal case (returns a single resultset), you should be fine.

-derby