This is a general question to developers who use VB6 with DAO and ADO preferably in the same project. Several years back another programmer and I wrote and developed a system using VB6 and DAO with Access databases. Everything was okay except for his coding problems--now he is gone. Another programmer and I have taken that code and slowly replaced DAO with ADO so that later we could use SQL or whatever. Every since then, the systems are not stable to say the least. Sometimes we get incomplete data and often get many, many system error messages. We found that MS Server 2003 and 2008 "timeout" with ADO and access databases; so, we applied the modifications MS suggested to the registry. That helped but did not eliminate the problems. I just wanted to ask if anyone else has encountered this and what they did about it. Thanks.