Um, are you forgetting that Uncle Sam has the pipe running through his sandbox? You have no idea what he gleans between your end and our end.

Better make sure your triggers are designed for set based logic and not row based updates. If the application only updates one row at a time, the trigger might very well only handle that. Bad coding, but I've seen it plenty and your mass update would produce unpredictable results in such a case.

You can't do that with ER. Two minute recap is all they offer. I found that out to my disgust this weekend when I went there to watch a show I missed because the local channels preempted the entire hour with Storm Coverage.