I wrote an email a few days ago to the effect that I could not get the mapi.connect() MAL statement to work due to the server side complaining that I had not specified the database to use. This morning I ran one of the sample programs included with MonetDB, clients/examples,C/sample0.c (sample0). It seems very similar as it issues a mapi_connect() with the database field set to NULL. It fails in the same way, i.e., MAPI = monetdb@localhost:50000 ACTION= mapi_start_talking ERROR = !monetdbd: please specify a database Should mapi_connect() work with the database field set to NULL? (If so, then the mapi.connect() MAL statement should work, I think.) Is there a bug in the server that insists on the database being specified? If there is a bug, does anyone have a fix for this? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Steve Morgan