>The basic thing that bugs me: Being "in memory" is not enough merit for a >technology! I must be missing something. What? What is the advantage of >using an in memory Dataset as opposed to the scenario above?
I think Microsoft were going to do a fully-fledged IMDB, but it never happened. Here's [1] the best I could find for why not. I'm not sure if the IMDB was transactional either???, but that would also be a trick with in-memory data (durability) ie what happens when the power goes off? cheers michael w [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en- us/dncomser/html/whatimdb.asp You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
