>Hi Al.
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=SQLEXEC(nHandle, "SELECT <i>OneField</i> FROM <i>Table</i>", "Output")

What's the name of OneField? It might match a SQL reserved word, such as "Desc", which might be an abbreviation for "Description" but matches the "DESC" (descending) keyword). Try putting quotes around the field name and seeing if that works.
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>Doug

In a roundabout way, your suggestion led to the answer. I don't have Access here; a client handed me an .MDB and said "read this in Fox". So, I ran the "SELECT * FROM ..." query to get the table structure. Some of the columns came across with names like "First_Name", "Last_Name", etc.

So, I blithely tried "SELECT First_Name FROM ..." with no success.

You've probably guessed it by now - the column name is "First Name", not "First_Name". Just where do those Jet programmers get off, anyways, supporting spaces in column names?

As you suggested, "SELECT 'First Name' FROM ..." works just fine.

Interestingly, AERROR() is pretty useless here - it reported "Connectivity error: < driver > Too few parameters. Expected 9." (maybe this is typical of ODBC errors :-/)

Thanks for the help.