Hi, case should be tolower, toupper, nochange,.... not "*****" . I think you switched case for pwd? Anyway, you can just use odbConnect("yourODBC connection") to connect to your ODBC db. Bart -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/RODBC-in-R-tp2258510p2258742.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.