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I have two tables, MASTER and DETAIL. For every master row there are
about 800 detail records.

I have two grids representing the master detail relationship. In my
dataset I have a relationship defined which allows me to have the
detail records automatically populate through client side filtering
whenever the master record changes.

When I want to refresh the DETAIL recordset manually for a given
master record, I have two choices: 1)refresh the entire DETAIL table
and let client side filtering bring the newest version of the detail
records in to the grid or 2)have a query that only refreshes the
DETAIL records that pertain to the currently selected master record.
If this operation were always to bring back the same primary keys (but
with potentially changed non-primary key fields) everything would be
great. I could do a merge on the dataset and it would work nicely.
However, the detail records could have been added to or deleted from
by another user so I really should remove all detail records
corresponding to the current master record and then do a merge from
the query.

The problem is: if I loop through all the detail records (about 800)
and do a deleterow it takes 30-40 seconds even if I disable
constraints. Is this normal? If so, isn't there a quicker way to do
this? Like a function equivalent to Clear() in speed???

Thanks

I neglected to say that I don't like apporach 1) because it takes very long
(800 detail records per master * 50 (and growing) master records * 1k) so I
am focusing on approach 2)

call Clear on the DETAIL DataTable.

you're kidding! I thought I had tried this. well, if a clear on the detail
table only clears the detail records pertaining to the master record and not
all the records, that would be what I am looking for. I'll give it a try.

Thanks

My quick test shows me that Clear() on the DETAIL table clears all the
records in the table not just the ones that belong to the MASTER record.

I need a way to quickly clear only the ones belonging to the MASTER record
so that I can re-merge them in - in effect creating a refresh for only the
MASTER record's DETAIL records...