Last November, I engaged Udi Dahan (the Software Simplist) on using DataSets in OLTP situations. It turns out that Udi uses a question I posed that kind of preceded this dialogue for his latest podcast at Dr. Dobbs Journal titled DataSets and Web Services. Yes, I am the Jacob he mentions.
You can tell that he's not a great fan of DataSets in general, though he takes pains to treat them fairly. Which puts him ahead of most of the developers I track, really.
Row State
One of the things that Udi doesn't like about DataSets is that they track row state. Unfortunately, he...