--- Lightning <oktellme at earthlink.net> wrote: > I am trying to update an existing record. The sql > statement is fine. > rsActivity=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.RecordSet") > rsActivity.Open sql,dsn,,3 Why open a recordset to execute a non-recordset-returning function? <semi-rhetorical> just do a connectionObject.Execute "sqlstatement" :) sgd