<tip type="Charsets" author="Joshua Olson"> If you've ever wondered what sort of issues relating to character sets (eg UTF-8, ISSO-8859-1, etc) might mess up a form posting or inserts into a database, then the following link may have the explanation for you: http://people.netscape.com/ftang/paper/textintegrity.html </tip> <tip type="SQL" author="Joshua Olson"> If you need to provide a graphical interface (via http) for interfacing with databases on SQL Server and/or MSDE, you may want to consider the following: http://www.mylittletools.net/scripts/en/mla_sql/default.asp It's not a complete replacement for EM, but it does provide many of the same functionalities as EM. </tip> <><><><><><><><><><> Joshua Olson Web Application Engineer WAE Tech Inc. http://www.waetech.com 706.210.0168