Quick response right away...

No REPLACE, No LOCATE, no SEEK...

Just because the words 'SEEK' don't appear in the language doesn't mean you can't do the same thing.

If I define a primary key on a data table (in the same way you'd do an INDEX ON...), I can do an ADO.NET FIND() (similar to a SEEK). So it's generally the same functionality, and same # of lines of code.

Follow-up response coming...