Many people have requested this so here it is: "DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}; DBQ=C:\MYDB\TEST.MDB" If you want to use the native OLEDB provider for Access, here it is. This should perform a little better than ODBC: "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=c:\temp\mydb.mdb" Submission Date: 3/18/2002 11:21:37 AM Submitted By: Robbe Morris My Home Page: http://www.robbemorris.com