you have problem with the WMI object, not with the DB.

what did you change with the code?

query = "Select * from __InstanceCreationEvent" _

& " " & "where TargetInstance isa 'Win32_NTLogEvent'" _

& " " & "and TargetInstance.Logfile = 'Application'" _

& " " & "and (TargetInstance.EventType = 1 or TargetInstance.EventType = 2)" _

& " " & "and (TargetInstance.SourceName like 'MSSQL%')"

' get ready to insert into our DBA table

the problem is when you try to run the query :

Set colMonitoredEvents = objWMIService.ExecNotificationQuery(query)