Hi, I'm new in this list... I'm looking for the simplest way to read data stored in MSDE tables from Perl scripts running on Unix Tru64 (production machine) and - possibly- OS X (development machine). Any idea? DBIx::MSSQLReporter seems to be a good candidate, but its installation requires DBD::ADO, which is only for Win32 machines. TIA. Stefano -- Dott. Stefano Bargioni Pontificia Universita' della Santa Croce - Roma Vicedirettore della BibliotecaThread Next