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Right, to a command object. What I don't see is how it can be said that they don't work reliably.
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The THEY in this case is the Recordset. The unreliable statement refers to the attempt to update/create/delete data through the recordset. Instead, I advocate the use of a Command Object. Based on your post, it sounds like we are in agreement on this..

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I guess it's not. The point was that you only send one message to pass the data. Which is really about the shape recordset.
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Still MSMQ is irrelevant...