note cchampion <blockquote><i> When it talks about the client does it mean the DBD::MySQL???? </i></blockquote> <p>No, it means the client library that DBD::mysql is using.</p> <p>If you could recompile your client with the new libraries all would be good. I have done that, but unfortunately only on Linux.</p> <p>For Windows, you may ask [PodMaster] (a.k.a. [crazyinsomniac]), who has a [id://162391|repository] and he <a href="http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/ppm/README.html"> takes requests</a>.</p> <p>HTH</p> 420105 420112