thank you so much for your help. If possible could you answer some questions that I have? I believe we have oracle 8 or 9. I will have to ask the system administrator about that if you really need to know. 1. I was wondering if there was a way to get the C librabries and headers from the Oracle webstite, or do I need to get them off the cd. 2. How would I make a script? Is making a script like writing a program? 3. Where do I locate tnsnames.ora and in what way do i change it?