Yup. It is the Debug class. Got my wires crossed there for a moment :laugh: "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

You're welcome :) The need to optimize rises from a bad design. My articles[^]

Yeah, what they said. I definitely wouldn't open the connection any sooner than necessary, but I also wouldn't close it any sooner either. I prefer to get all the data collected and ready to go, then open, process all the stuff, and close. If holding all the data in memory at once isn't an option, then opening and closing for each may be a good idea.

Since you're asking on a managed-code board... There's some built-in stuff already available to you: Assembly Security Considerations[^] Mark Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:

This: ",(?=([^\"]*\"[^\"]*\")*(?![^\"]*\"))" Evil cannot be conquered in the world... It can only be resisted within oneself.

Instead of Console.Write(column.ToString()); try using the indexer for row like: Console.Write(row[column].ToString()); The need to optimize rises from a bad design. My articles[^]