Is it necessary to close an Adodb.recordset object before setting it to nothing?

Question

Dim rs as ADODB.Recordset
set rs = ReturnARecordset \'assume ReturnARecordset does just that...

\'do something with rs

rs.Close
set rs = Nothing

Is i

Answer 1

I needed to write many files. If I didn't close the connection after each file written then I got extraneous garbage at the end of subsequent files.

fsT.Close

followed by

fsT.Open

to "refresh" the output stream. So when I saved a new file, it was "clean".