>ADO.NET is not suitable for doing SQL post processing. Only some basic build in function to ease some of the pain. ADO.NET does not scale as it resides in memory. It is no match to the VFP local database engine and there is no person at MICROSOFT even denying this, but somehow you with all your experience think otherwise.... Again, you're trying to make a pig sing...
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The key is doing to processing on SQL. ADO is quite capable of doing any other processing needed.