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Index integrity check possible?
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28/03/2007 09:03:31
 
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
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Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01209144
Message ID:
01209180
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19
>Hi,
>
>I wonder whether it is possible to write a function that checks the integrity of a table index.
>
>Some types of index corruption can go unnoticed for quite a long time. Esp. in such a case, the advantage of an integrity check would be quite big.
>
>But there have been people here who declared it almost or entirely impossible to write a reliable integrity check.
>
>Any ideas?

If for some reason you imagined that some table index is latently corrupted then replicate data by using Scan/Insert and then Index new table, that's the best possible 'check', imo.
Edward Pikman
Independent Consultant
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