Karl, Just need to set the record straight here. It is incorrect to say that HP's ODBC does only serial reads. ODBC has nothing to do with serial or any types of read. ODBC will issue SQL Fetch commands to the RDBMS and it is up to the RDBMS to fetch the data and return it to the c/s application via ODBC. Is it possible that you misunderstood your account advocate, or that he/she does not know a serial read from pablum? (comprenne qui peux). Further, you neglected to say which database you wanted to access, IMAGE/SQL, ALLBASE/SQL, ORACLE, what? Now, what is your beef with ODBCLink? I have seen it, played with it and find nothing wrong with it, au contraire. Kind regards, Denys. . .