just as i wanted. thank you.

>You may use
>

>If Type('DBGetProp("myConnection","CONNECTION","DataSource")') = 'U'
>    * does not exist
>EndIf
>

>Regards,
>Jose
>
>>Is there a best practice for checking if the creation of a connection is successful?
>>

>>Ex.
>>open data myDatabase
>>create connection myConnection ;
>>  datasource 'myODBCConn' ;
>>  userid 'myUserID' ;
>>  password 'myPassword'
>>