this is not a ez question and yes I know what I am talking about... If you would have read I am NOT on a windows machine but rather a Sun Solaris 7 (sparc) machine and the C code is nessesary because it provides some ( not all due to data types) connection. this is a feat in itself if you would bother trying it. without the libraries and the c files (some created or hacked by me and some from freetds) the datastream out of the database would not be utilized..

thanks for the input though.