>Side-stepping the issue is, at best, disingenuous.
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>This is not a "constructed" scenario - it is a scenario I've faced on numerous occasions from different clients. It separates the desktop/LAN developers from web/distributed development.
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>I invite you to poll developers on different SQL forums if you don't believe me.

Bt it was contrived!

I stopped reading when I got to '... therefore it must support paging... yet the user must know how many total...". Crap.