>I decided I had better look at the new CursorAdapters folks are talking about, and after some experimentation got them
>working against my remote data. However it was certainly more fiddly than setting up a remote view.
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>So far it seems that I can do all my SQL Server work just by using remote views.

Yes, but with a CursorAdapter, you have the freedom to work against the OLE DB provider instead of the ODBC driver, if you want.