Thanks for the advice, its not really that I am having that much trouble with DBI, its just that I have never even looked at a database before in my life. And I don't have a good resource for learning about using DBI, I just kind of did a quick google search and started to try figuring out what I was doing. Oh yea, $CODE is uppercase because I am updating an old DBase III program at the request of a friend, so I just opened it up and started modifying it and the variables in it happened to be uppercase. I am an amature programmer with no formal training, so i don't pretend for a moment I have a clue what I'm doing. Thanks a lot for your help though.