I've been doing some VERY BASIC reading of ADO.NET 2.0, but I've not been able to find an answer to this question: (which leads me to believe it's assumed to be a general knowledge understanding ...

Practical .NET Performance Tips: Speed up Data Access Faster performance in business applications comes down to reducing the "critical two" -- disk I/O and trips to the server. Doing that means doing ...

I have verified that the file does exist when the call is made and that every time a connection is opened (in the first iteration) it is eventually closed.<P>Relevant info: Access 2000, MDAC 2.6 ...