i tried the tool man..
i did get to see that the tables exist in the database... but when i tried quering -
select * from vendor where username = 'SMITH'
i got '0 rows returned'
the databse directory that i am investigating is from a CD that came with a book..and the book says that all tha tables have data for a user by name smith..
again the problem persists...my
IDE still says 'table does not exist'