--That did not work. I still get the same error.
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>What exactly did you do? Both solutions that I gave you should have worked.
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--I guess I have to live with 3 tables instead of one
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>I have no idea what you mean by that.

Marcia

What I meant was that issuing the following command:

OPEN DATABASE Your database name EXCLUSIVE
VALIDATE DATABASE RECOVER

will produce the same error.

Are you suggesting that the error could be caused by the column long names???

I will get rid of the long names and will let you know the result.