>Gerard,
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>To the best of my awareness, LINQ to SQL will only work with SQL Server.
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>My two cents: if you're using stored procs in SQL Server, there is not much of a convincing reason to use LINQ to SQL (and in my opinion, LINQ to SQL is, in some instances, a few steps backwards)
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>The power and benefits to LINQ are things like Linq to Objects, Linq to XML, etc.

I thought that Linq was just a restating of a SQL statement closer to how the data engine actually looks at your script.