Mitchel thanks for the book. It has been a lot of help. I have a couple simple questions in regards to manually executing the SqlDataProviders. (1). Should I only execute 01.00.00.SqlDataProvider and not Guestbook.SqlDataProvider or Uninstall.SqlDataProvider? (2) When I execute 01.00.00..., I do get the "The query completed successfully" message but when I go to my database file via SQL server management studio, it doesn't appear that any tables were created. The purpose of executing the SqlDataProvider(s) was to create the tables, no? Can you help clarify?