>I thought of that approach. But I also was concerned about
>the app crashing and leaving bad data in a table.
>
>With the low level file approach, if the file is readable, the
>record is available.

There're a few drawbacks with this approach:
- It could be slow because of disk i/o
- Requires for all WS's to have access to some shared folder on the network
- kind of defeat a purpose of using ADO in the first place