Well to keep you all upto date, I have deinstalled everything! I have made sure that the codepage utility offered for download earlier in this post is reporting codepage OEM 850 and ANSI 1252. I have reinstalled MSDE. I have reinstalled SQL SERVER Enterprise Manager and other Client tools. I have reinstalled Navision with SQL Option. Then I have tried it again to see if it works and guess what !!! It don’t. For any of you that may have missed it, look at the screen shot i left for download earlier in this port. Regards As always