>No, I don't. Is your aplication using TCP/IP to communicate witrh Sql Server? You can add "Network=DBMSSOCN" to connection string to make sure that it does.

I added it but not sure if it changes anything. The timeout usually takes about 7 seconds. To simulate it, I entered a bad server value such as:

lnHandle=SQLStringConnect('Driver=SQL server;Server=BadPC; Database=Universal Thread; '+;
 'Network=DBMSSOCN;')

So, this server doesn't exist. Maybe when the server doesn't exist, it checks for additional things before the timeout get effective. That would mean, it takes about 5 additional seconds at first to check for something else and then the 2 seconds will apply.