I don't know how much time I will be programming. A couple of months ago, I was retired by my company (a well known Canadian oil firm). I am well past a traditional retirement age here in the US. I was able to find full time employment at an engineering consulting firm recently, so discretionary time will again be more limited. I do want to see this ODBC class thing out though. A lot of it is in place but I am stuck on wide string prepared statements and binding wide char text to it. It just recognizes the first character of the wide string. Oh well, eventually I will stumble on to a solution.