>Ok, so the Data Object contains the SQL code.
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>If I have a Customer BO, I might have a GetCustomerByID procedure.
>The BO would pass the Id to the Data object, which would run a
>query for that Id? Sound right?

Yup, that sounds right

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>Now, say I wanted to call stored procs in the DO instead, how would I set up
>the stored procedure? If I had the following procedure:
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>procedure GetCustomerById(nId as integer)
>select * from customers where Id = nId
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>How would I return the results to the BO? Would you have the DO convert the
>results to XML, or do that in the BO?
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Since the SP won't return a cursor, the SP will have to do the conversion to XML. The DO should not be generic; it should be custom for each backend to take advantage of the database's strengths.

>Thanks
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