>I'm curious how many people here use SET RELATION data relationships for viewing parent/child local data, as compared to SQL queries / views which load everything into a single file? I've observed that most old school developers (began in the 80s) use SET RELATION, and most newer developers prefer SQL almost exclusively (and I think many would prefer LINQ).

An obvious situation where I've resorted to SET RELATION is when a table logically would've contained more than 254 columns.