title: How fast is LINQ?
body: <p>I need to manipulate 100,000 - 200,000 records.<br>
  I am thinking of using LINQ (to SQL) to do this.<br>
  I know from experience that filtering dataviews is very slow.<br>
  So how quick is LINQ?<br>
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  Can you please tell me your experiences and if it is worth using, or would I be better off using SQL stored procedures (heavy going and less flexible)?
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  Within the thousands of records I need to find groups of data and then process them, each group has about 50 records.</p>