>I have a sql server table with 85K rows, a sales order line item file. Unfortunately for this application, it is difficult to come up with parameter conditions to limit the # of rows to retrieve - it makes more sense to download the whole file for the application I am working with.

I highly suggest that you find something to limit the amount of data that you will be retrieving. If you don't, you will be creating performance issues. What's a user going to do with 85,000 rows? How would they go about finding a specific set of rows? Can you not force some kind of search specs such as a date range, customer number, employee number, country code, something?!?!

-Mike