>>>That would be an acceptable answer, *IF* that is the real answer. It sure would mean some ammunition to those uninformed who think there is nothing wrong with .NETs data handling capabilities.
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>>LOL. And this coming from someone who (self-admittedly) has not yet used .net. How can you make those absurd statements?
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>Hmmm, maybe because MS has admitted this already on various occasions ??
>You're sticking your hand in the sand. Microsoft has been telling you this for a couple of years already.

We've been using it heavily for huge amounts of data and haven't had much trouble except to implement JR's autospanning for really huge datasets; other wise, our data handling is just fine using nothing but SQL Server and ADO.