My experience is that college classes rarely show how to do something in the real world.

Sounds like the class is doing it in an "off the shelf" style. It would be interesting to know what they're using for the text.

>That is good to know. They have a new class offered in the fall quarter at UCLA, "Using C# with SQL Server". Unfortunately the sylabus goes into great detail about ado.net, using stored procedures, .net framework etc. But doesn't mention busines objects at all.
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>It appears texts by folks like Rocky are far better on this topic then classes.