having installed perl and mysql server etc, I have run my perl script available.plx and get the results below <Snip> ADO No known data sources ExampleP dbi:ExampleP:dir=. Proxy Error: install_driver(Proxy) failed: Can't locate RPC/PlClient.pm i mysql No known data sources </Snip> Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get dbi talking to mysql, and perl talking to them both. Thanks for your help ;-) James.