Sadly this has made no difference at all. Tomcat fell over after about 2 hours usage so it's back to the drawing board. Andy C -----Original Message----- From: Andy C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12 April 2001 16:56 Subject: Update: Fed up to the back teeth with tomcat !!! >Many thanks to all who have taken the time to answer our >rather irratable plea for help. Although we haven't 100% got the >solution, following advice from Randy Layman, we have upgraded >our JVM to 1.1.8 (remember there is a lagacy servlet that will not >run on a higher JVM). We have also changed from the >sun JDBC-ODBC driver to a type 4 JDBC driver from >http://www.freetds.org/ for access to the SQL Server database. >