One of the biggest differences between traditional ADO and ADO.NET is that the rowsets stored within ADO.NET can be truly relational. For example, a DataSet can store one DataTable containing customers and another DataTable containing the customers' orders. These DataTable objects can then be related to one another within ADO.NET, thus recreating the relationship that exists within the relational database. In ADO.NET once you retrieve two rowsets of data (in other words, parents and children) and relate them to each other, you can then retrieve all children rows for a given parent, display any one DataTable in a grid at a time, or modify several tiers of DataTable objects, and send the changes to the database all in one batch update.
