>And this one produces an unknown command error.
>

>   execstr = "EXEC 'create table c:\taffble1 (xfield1 c(20))'"
>   oConn.Execute(execstr)
>

>Which I don't understand either.

Don,
I don't understand why I got a CC and I remember I showed you to do all that stuff as a stored procedure rather than EXEC.
Cetin