>>That used to be one of the claimed downsides of a Remote View- change the table and you may have to change the RV. And the RV cannot be altered on the fly to suit different needs.<

Ah, but the difference is that if you forget to add the columns to your DataSet, stuff will still work. The column will be automatically added to the DataSet when you .Fill() it, it just won't be "typed", but you can still access it.

~~Bonnie




>>>We use Typed DataSets exclusively in our .NET app. One should know beforehand what result-set they are expecting to get back from the database. We never build SQL statements on the fly.
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>That used to be one of the claimed downsides of a Remote View- change the table and you may have to change the RV. And the RV cannot be altered on the fly to suit different needs.
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>Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.