>>l have always held to the rule of using the right tool for the job. SQL was not the right tool for this job.
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>>Kevin, out of curiosity, why were you using 2005 and not 2008?
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>That decision is generally not up to the individual developer, is it? Unless they're an independent, and often not even then if the client has other ideas. I know you are in the business of teaching people how to use the latest and greatest right away, but that is not the way many shops work.

I sounds to me like this project is Kevin's, not something dictated to him.