>You forgot to include "Autospanning". :p
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>If that feature was crucial, then I wouldn't move "today" to a platform that doesn't offer it. Would I? ;-) Except possibly as a hypothetical exercise similar to those I've told you I've conducted since 2002. ;-)
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>FWIW, Craig B posted a link to a very recent article from Anders that seemed to suggest that in-memory datasets will soon be a feasible approach, which does tend to imply some sort of disk-memory spanning.

Well you've been harping on it for months, so I guess you figured out something else to worry about ... good to know you're so fickle. BTW, ADO .net are in-memory datasets, so I don't see what the big deal is. Secondly, ADO.net in memory datasets don't imply any sort of disk-spanning. You're reading into it again.. There are 2 Craig B's here. Who are you referring to?