Extracting data (again a newby question)

I need to load data from a RDBMS (MSDE).

That data is many look-up tables that I want to load into arrays, at startup, to avoid accessing the DB later....

I'd like to see (example) how to load an array with the data.

Is it possible to define the array based on a table row's definition ?

ex.

Myshapes ....ShapeTable.RowType()

(you can see I'm coming from Oracle...)



Thanks.

ok ok, it's a dataset....

Do you guys have a sample of how to use this little devil ???

Thanks.