http://msmvps.com/blogs/bill/archive/2008/04/08/sql-timestamps.aspxI was just reading a work around for timestamps with LINQ or WCF, and I must be stupid, but I just don't get it. In fact, ever since dotnet came out mapping timestamp to a byte array or SqlBinary, I never got why they did that. Timestamp is 8 bytesenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)