Thanks for the responses gentlemen. I note that Arabic domain names are now coming online.

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/uae-launches-first-arabic-address-website-271298.html

Presumably if the web 'domain' is in Arabic then it won't be long before there...

Carolyn and Steve,

Thanks for responses.

"Best practice" here appears to be NOT to use a single copy of a stored procedure working on remote databases but to continue, in some way,...