I am new to IDL and I am trying to create a database interface module using the dataminer functionality. The documentation and online tech notes appear to be very sparse on this topic, so I am hoping I will find a user who has worked through some of my issues. Immediately I am trying to get a recordset working that is based on a ExecuteSQL statement so I can limit the retrieval from the database to specific records. My query appears to work (no error reported), but the first record retreived is not the correct record (not in the expected recorded set at all). If anyone has work through this or other database access issues, please reply directly. Your help is appreicated. Rob Lee rlee@roblee.com