Hi Matt,

You could connect to the back end, open a small view, and get this connection number with something like this:

**	Since this is our first open connection, let's grab
**	the connection handle.
oApp.ConnectNumber = CursorGetProp('ConnectHandle', ALIAS())

Guy



>Hi all,
>
>I have a DBC with a Named connection to an Oracle Database 'myconnection'. I want to be able to use a SQLEXEC to pull data for a small lookup. Is there a way to determine the connection handle of the Named connection in the DBC so that I don't have to establish another connection using SQLCONNECT?