>Given two scenarios:
>1) A pure .NET app using the sqlclient.
>2) A pure COM app using OLEDB and ADO. If it matters, lets say its written in VB 6.0.

Hi, Craig.

I´ve done a very stupid test here... 1 Console app (in C#), and 2 PRG in VFP (using ADO - oledb, and SPT - odbc) - I don´t have VB6 aqui...

the test is some stupid, but I think it´s what you want: data access... I just make the routines create the objects, connect to SQL Server, "select * from authors" (Pubs database), and close the connection... everything´s on a for..next with 500 iterations... in C#, or in VFP with ADO or SPT, everything went equal = 2 seconds.

Of course this is a stupid test, because this select just returns 24 records. If someone has some routine at hand to replicate a bank in SQL just send me, and I do the test again...