>>Yikes! My customer has reported that the database cotainer has become corrupt.
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>>but I can't open the database to validate it?
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>>How do I sort this without manually receating the database container?
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>>TIA
>Forgot to mention he hasnt backed up for months, I know!!!

Robin,

You'll have to put a copy on your system

If you're lucky, it's just the index which you can delete. It will be recreated when you open the database in exclusive mode

A database container is just a description of all the tables it contains (names, relations, ...)

You could replace the .dbc, .dct and the .dcx files with those of a valid (similar) database

Then open it exclusively and validate it

Success.