Tom, Ritesh,
After all is said and done, I have some egg on my face. The problem was ultimately a path issue, complicated for me because, in the hurry of development, I had forgotten that I had copied a database to another folder to perform a specific test. I had it duplicated one directory away from the original. I had copied the small, original, practice database that I had from my trial runs 3 weeks ago to a second place on my hard drive where my software was being developed. So, the copied database was always accessible and my software could always see its tables. The original database was in an adjacent folder; the software could not see it. So, when I made modifications to the original database through the command line interface, the changes couldn't be seen by my software. My software could only see the copied database which never changed. I apologize for consuming your time. Thank you for your assistance. Sincerely, Lee Crain