Forum Post: RE: Accessing temp-tables in a dataset?

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Mike and Simon, Thank you for your assistance. A week ago, the datatype for the output parameter was indeed a DATASET-HANDLE using the BY-REFERENCE clause. However, during a support call with Progress for an unrelated issue, the support engineer informed a coworker that we should not be using DATASET-HANDLE anyplace in our code except at the entry point into our processing from a NET client. We questioned why we could not use DATASET-HANDLE and we're told that we were making deep copies of the associated dataset (inspite of the presence of the BY-REFERENCE clause) and that we should be using HANDLE instead. This is why you see the legacy line of hdlEntity = dsEntity:HANDLE. Now I am concerned that we could have used DATASET-HANDLE, as originally designed....

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