reassign 429663 mono thanksAfter talking to the authors, they hinted that this particular bug was fixed in trunk. I downloaded[1] and built the snapshot from 2007-06-18 and can confirm that System.Data.SqlClient *is* usable again.
The relevant patch is the one included in the mailing list posting that I referred to previously.
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