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The section was looping through the fields object to bind rows to a grid which I normally would never do by name anyways...
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Exactly, that is the problem with many books in that an inefficient approach is always used. Bill Vaughn wrote the Hitchikers guide to VB and SQL Server. A smart guy and one that I have been privledged to meet and talk with on several occasions. Still, I guestion whether these folks build real applications. I get the sense that they don't.

In pure numbers and in theory, Bill may be correct. For all practical purposes and in reality, I don't think it makes a difference if you use the good practices.