have spent the last hour or so browsing the archives and have not quite found the answer to my question. 1) What is the ETA for getting mysql ++ 1.7.9 or greater out for vc++ 6.0, 2) Is there any way to get SSQLS working with vc++ 6? If I use anything above 15 entries my compiler just freezes... 15 and lower though and everything compiles and links fine. This is with 1.7.1 3) General newbish db programming question... Do you all suggest using one persistant connection to the db in a program or doing things more in the style of a php webpage... Create and kill a connection on each "page load" or in the case of a normal program command.... I was doing it the persistent way but anytime my program closed imporperly it was leaving behind threads in memory of the dbase server.. At one point my administrator said I had 130 threads active that were owned by no one. Needless to say this is a bad thing....