Hi I am trying to read a data set in ADO. If I exclude a timestamp field that I have in the return type, all works wonderfully. The moment I include the timestamp (i've even tried casting it as date) it bombs out with an OLEDB Exception of some type. Has anyone got any ideas? Thanks Craig ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly