>We have an index that keep corrupting all the time. Even if I delete the table, rebuild it from scratch and recreate the indexes, the same index will eventually corrupt itself again. Allways the same index and allways the same table.
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>Except for power failure or application shutdown in a middle of a write, what can cause this ? And how to avoid it ?
I don't know if this has already been suggested, but I've seen cases where bad characters in table data (e.g. CHR( 0 )) can cause index corruption. These are sometimes caused by power failures or app/workstation crashes as you've mentioned but they persist in the table data, so they cause problems with indexes.
You may want to scan the table(s) in question (char and memo columns) for CHR( 0 ) or other characters that shouldn't be there.
If you're deleting the table, the backup you're restoring or APPENDing from may have this sort of corruption.
Regards. Al
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