Access 97 tested trough ODBC 1998.04.19, by monty@tcx.se ccess 97 has a bug when on executes a SELECT follwed very fast with a ROP TABLE or a DROP INDEX command: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access 97 Driver] The database engine couldn't lock table 'crash_q' because it's already in use by another person or process. (SQL-S1 000)(DBD: st_execute/SQLExecute err=-1) Debugging SQL queries in Access 97 is terrible because most error messages are of type: Error: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access 97 Driver] Syntax error in CREATE TABLE statement. (SQL-37000)(DBD: st_prepare/SQLPrepare err=-1) Which doesn't tell a thing!