Bonnie,

>>Message #856716

>Thanks for the Message #, Walter. I *do* remember reading that post now.

>>You've got to read between the lines. Esspecially when he says that when handling large amunts of data .NET downright sucks and that there is no local database engine.<
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>Well, sometimes reading between the lines causes misinterpretation ... I think Rick cleared up some things a bit better with his reply to you a couple of hours ago.

In ricks message there was nothing that cleared up on the datamunging side, I don't think rick has a significant different viewpoint on ADO.NET. Basically there was not much in ricks message that I disagree with. It confirms that .NET is a great platform, but there are still things to be desired and IMO, esspecially when it comes to handling data.

Walter,