is there a tutorial out there that will make my life easy. I see a lot of prompt work. Is this how thinghs are done in MySql?. I mean I know where my database is for my boards but those are really of the arena of the the gyu that bought vB for our domian. I pay for the server space. I read a tutorial using MS Access but it's not very conscise. Actually confusing. Is there anything that will make my life relatively easier when trying to learn MySql??? You guys are great and again thanks for the help