tanya foster wrote: I would think this is a common enough situation that a method/tool/wrapper would have been added to be able to handle a single query referencing two or more tables in two different SQL Server databases. It may be possible to do with a stored procedure, but not with any code on the client side that I know of. You might want to post the question in the SQL Forum[^]. There's a guy in there, Colin Angus Mackay, who knows FAR more about SQL Server than I do. Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Jesal, I am trying to connect to a Progress database within a vb.net or asp.net (either one will work for me) application. There is no Microsoft SQL Server involved. If I don't have Driver={MERANT 3.70 32-Bit Progress}; within the connection string, the error messages are: Found ObcException type error - ERROR [HYC00][MERANT] [ODBC PROGRESS driver]Optional feature not implemented ERROR [HY000][MERANT] [ODBC PROGRESS driver] msgOpen: Unable to open message file: PROMSGS ERROR [IM006][MERANT] [ODBC PROGRESS driver] SQLSetConnectAttr failed. So clearly, I will get less messages if the connection string contains Driver={MERANT 3.70 32-Bit Progress};