Hi When connecting an MS SQL database from MS Access it is necessary to use the option dbSeeChanges with db.openrecordset. This is ok when using Visual Basic but is it possible to access the data using DBI:ODBC. Win2000 MS SQL version 7 MS Access 97 perl 5.005 (build 509) W32ODBC.pm,v 10.1 1998/08/14 Thanks. Ian