Hi, small perplexing question with most likely a hideously simple answer, I'm for somereson my TDatabase comp is giving me errors: I have the following comp: object Database1: TDatabase DatabaseName = 'tmp' DriverName = 'SQL Server' LoginPrompt = False Params.Strings = ( 'server name=xxxxx' 'database name=td_test' 'user name=xxxx' 'password=xxxxx') SessionName = 'Default' Left = 184 Top = 80 end When I try to set connected to true, I just get "invalid configuration parameter", alias: tmp. Am I missing something really obvious here? -- There are exceptions, I'm sure, but the Windows 2000 on-line community seems to have, in general, the moral and spiritual qualities of your average porn site. (c) Bryan Pfaffenberger, Linux Journal, Jan 2001. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi"