>>>>And BTW you can write SP,UDT,UDF... in C# code and test in M.Studio (well also in VS).

Yes, but does this preclude me to only using MSSQL, will it work in Oracle SQL too?

>>>If you are starting to use it now, did you ever check SQL2008? Its release date is getting near that you may directly want to jump to it:)
cetin

I may, but I really need to make this work for a variety of SQL versions the clients may install. I will have to parameterize the connection string as I'm sure most programmers do.