Alex,

You have a good point about Binary fields, etc. Those would need separate methods. We honestly do not use many of those.

I am not seeing hos I can add a parameter without a type. I keep getting compiler errors if I try that. Do you have an example of adding a parameter to a command object (both SqlCommand and OleDbCommand) only defining a name/value pair?

Thanks,
JoeK

>Joe as matter of fact you don't even need a type to add the parameter you can do it just passing the name, the value or in 2005 call the AddWithValue method of the parameters collection.
>What about general fields or binary or blog fields how will u put that into your Sql string?
>if you use parameters is the dataprovider that manages that for you.