Hmmm...When you install any of the server editions of SQL Server, the Northwind database is automatically created. I'm not sure about MSDE. Maybe the install script is there but not automatically run. The script is named INSTNWND.SQL. On my machine it's located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Install.

-Mike

>Yes, that did it! Thanks!
>
>Next question. In many of the books/articles about SQL Server, I see
>references to the Northwind database.
>
>Yet when I run the code sample, such as the ones in your book "Client/Server
>Applications with Visual FoxPro and SQL Server", I dont see Northwind. Do I
>have to create it? If so, how?
>
>Thanks, Signed Lost Puppy in the Woods