Lame ODBC Query Engine?

guys and gals, as sad as i am to admit it, i am in the process of converting a php project into ASP. this means i am using an dobc connection to connect to the exact same database as i was using under php (it's a mysql database, so using the myodbc driver on win2k machine) and i am having some problems. the following query works wonderfully on php/mysql, gives me exactly what i want and i'm very happy with it SELECT DISTINCT(Files.fileID),COUNT(Files.fileID) AS counter,Files.title,Files.artist FROM Files,Downloads WHERE Downloads.what=Files.fileID GROUP BY Files.fileID ORDER BY counter DESC,Downloads.time DESC LIMIT 10 when i use the same query on ASP/ODBC->MySQL, i get *nothing* no error, no recordset, nothing :P except for the limit 10 clause, that query returns hundreds of results, so there's heaps there, i don't know if anyone out there knows some ASP (i don't :P just learning!) but everything else seems to be ok, just that the ODBC driver (at least for MySQL) is just ignoring the select statement. i have tried playing with the select and as far as i can tell, the problem is to do with the use of COUNT and GROUP BY - are these allowed in ODBC queries? i have hunted the microsoft site for odbc documentation and the only links to it are all broken :P (thank you microsoft for your endless faux pas) anyhoo - any help would be greatly appreciated as i am getting to the stage where i am going to do some bizzarro select and then filter the results into arrays or soemthing if i can't get it sorted soon :) thanks folx beau =============================================================== Beau F Lebens, Technical Officer National Key Centre for School Science and Mathematics Science and Mathematics Education Centre Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987 Perth, Western Australia 6845 mailto:b.lebens@smec.curtin.edu.au http://learnt.smec.curtin.edu.au/ Univ: Tel +61 8 9266 7297 (v-mail); Fax +61 8 9266-2503 ===============================================================