I saw that closing an ODBC persistent connection opened with odbc_pconnect() with odbc_close() doesnt work. Someone here have proposed using odbc_close_all() but wouldnt that close all persistent connections (also others ones !!!) ? What about catching a persistent handle with odbc_connect() and then closing the connection with odbc_close() ? If there are no available handles (for some reason the last pconn has been closed) this approach opens and close a normal single-script connection. Waiting comments...