I have access, and when I tried to set up ODBC on my Win98, I got options of drivers like, TEXT DRIVER (.txt; .csv). Does this mean if I use Perl's DBI or Java's JDBC to connect to my ODBC and I will be able to use SQL on my TEXT files on my Win98? I know ODBC is a commom gate, does this mean this will hide EVERY DIFFERENCE before different drivers: such as Access, Exel and TEXT will be the same for SQL?