Hi Hugh,
>If you are doing batch updating of records from remote clients, I would use OFFLINE VIEWS of the tables involved and perform a batch update.
Assuming that they're using SQL Server as the data store, a much better solution to using Offline Views is to use the SQL Server Desktop Engine Edition (MSDE) and take advantage of the merge replication features in SQL Server.
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