>In fairness to Walter, he knows the SQL language well and has posted some very good SQL code up here.
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>No question, I strongly disagree with many statements regarding .NET and strong-typing. One can advocate (or not advocate) a position based on substance or form. Everyone can draw their own conclusions :)

This is not an attack on .NET, its criticism on strict typing and tools that force you to type for the sole reason to keep the compiler happy. In all fairness, .NET has taken quire a bit of steps to overcome the problems related to what I refer to. At least now (VS4) you can write office automation solutions that work for what ever version of office by using late binding and bypassing the compile time checks (object type), without having to revert to things like reflection. That is good and was needed.

However when hearing the word "Typed datasets", I start to shake and shiver.