What drivers are you using to access the database. In ADO it's very easy - in fact it's almost a side effect of getting our data. If you're using the Database Connectivity Toolkit, I don't know. Check out this
thread for alternate code. The example "Basic Query.vi" in the zip file I uploaded shows the basic process that you go through to read data using ADO. You'll notice that the column names are very easy to get to.
Mike...
