This sounds as a bit too much overhead.

Sending datatables over the wire is often a bit expensive. Often 3-5 times larger than the same data in an ordinary collection, but... Have you serialized the datatable at the server-side into a file and investigated the file to see its size and if it contains what you expect?

Best Regards,
Jimmy
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 Win2k/Com+/VB.NET/SQL Server 2k/XP

 Can anyone advise me on the following

 We have a 3 tier application
 1. Client runs vb.net forms on XP
 2. Server runs vb.net dlls in COM+ talking to a database on the same machine
 3. Client Server connectivity is via DCOM, ie export client package from the server pacakge

 When the client makes a simple call to retrieve 10 records, which are returned as a datatable, over 2 mb of network traffic is generated. The records account for only 10k or so

 Has anyone any ideas in terms of how to break this problem down, or is this what we should expect with COM & dotnet.

 TIA