Quoting Stephen R. Wilcoxon (wilcoxon at bridge.com): > What is the database behind the ODBC datasource? There is no uniform way > of extracting a schema from a database. Oracle's info is all stored in the > sys_* views and/or v$* tables. Sybase's info is all stored in dbo.sys* > tables. MS SQL Server is probably similar to Sybase (or, at least, it was > identical at one point). Ahh, that answers the question. I made a bad assuption that ODBC allowed a open standard to the database schema as well. Behind the ODBC connection is a funky little database called DB/TextWorks. It's a db specialized for libraries. -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org, Minnesota, Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9