>You can create the disconnected recordset on the client side with the same structure and send that to the back-end. Now this would not play if you're doing updates via UpdateBatch.
>

>oHeadRS = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
>With oHeadRS.Fields
>	.Append("FileName", adChar, 15)
>	.Append("SalesOrder", adChar, 10)
>	.Append("DateReceived", adChar, 20)
>EndWith
>oHeadRS.Open

Thanks for the info. I am not doing any updates via the disconnected resordset so that should not be a problem. But the recordset is actually a JOIN of two tables on the back end. Will this technique work in this situation?