Mark I ran into a similar problem building a VB maintenance program for a database that resides on Linux. Many of my queries were too big for MyODBC to return. I ended up using the count function to find out how many records would be returned then allowing the user to fetch them in blocks via limit. Larry G. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php