I am just trying to learn to use mysql and zope together (relatively new at both) . Can can create tables, but when I view them I only see the first character of any given value. If the table is named farm, I can see it listed with show tabled from my_database at "f". Likewise, when I select * from my_table, I see the fields listed with value of single chars in each one and they appear to be the chars that make up the text of my very last field value. P r o v i d e s (each char is the value of a colum) I am not sure how to even focus this question more than this, but what is goin on? When I create a second table named farm_test and then BROWSE MYSql connection object I see two things there... F and F. Each one has the word table under it when expanded. Here is how I created the tables: CREATE TABLE farm ( owner_id int primary key not null auto_increment, farm_name char (40), discipline char (30), owner_fname char(30), owner_lname char(30), farm_address1 char(50), farm_address2 char(50), city char(30), state char(2), zip char(5), country char (20), phone_area_code char(3), phone_no_area char(10), fax char(13), url char(30), email char(15), nearest_city char(15), nearest_city_distance int, add_date date, edit_date date, details char (250)) Here is how I populate the first record: insert into horse101.farm (owner_id,farm_name,discipline,owner_fname,owner_lname,farm_address1,farm_addr ess2,city,state,zip,country,phone_area_code,phone_no_area,fax,url,email,nearest_cit y,nearest_city_distance,add_date,edit_date,details) values(0,'Riverbed Farm','dressage','Vicki','Wall-Kelley','Volkerts Rd.','','Sebastopol','CA','95472','USA','707','829-5824','425-123- 1234','http://www.dressage.to','webmaster@dressage.to','San Francisco',60,2001-04- 10,2001-04-10,'Providing dressage instruction, training, judging as well as offering for sale imported and domestic dressage prospects.') Here is how I attempt to see the records: select * from farm Here are my results: Owner id= P Farm name=r Discipline=o Owner fname=v ,etc. You see, the last field is being inserted into the other fields one char at a time. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.