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>By its definition ADO.NET is not a database engine. It misses characteristics needed for it to be that. It is all at MSDN. No practical experience needed here. The specifications do just not fit the bill. There is no need to discuss this over and over again. I've made my standpoint clear.
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>This is why you - along with so many - cannot defend a point. In this post, you say by its defintion, ado .net is not a database engine. Yet nowhere, do you offer a defintion(s) of what a database engine is. Pointing to MSDN will not cut it.

"An introduction to database systems", D.J. Date.

At MSDN you can find out the ADO.NET characteristics. Compare them with the definitions in the book above and you'll come to the same conclusion.

>Indeed, your standpoint is clear

- with absolutely no basis or rationale.

Yep, this also qualifies the following.

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