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20/03/2002 07:44:16
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00634868
Message ID:
00634872
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>Hi all,
>
>A question from my boss on using a Database container:
>
>"What is the potential impact to the dbc if a workstation powers down with it [the DBC] open?"
>
>Thanks for the information...
>
>
>Robert

The program on the end-user's machine doesn't write any changes to the DBC, so there should be no problem.

The individual tables and indices are a totally different situation.

You should issue FLUSH after saving changes (with TableUpdate()), to minimize corruption.

HTH, Hilmar.
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