Does anyone have any information I can pass on to this guy (Novell LAN
admin)?



> Hi Kevin,
>
> I'm not sure what your VFP background is, but forms, reports, menus, and the
> database container are all tables so they are subject to the same
> possibility of table corruption as data tables.
>
> I have had very little data corruption and have successfully repaired my
> tables with a hex editor. I haven't needed any of the popular third party
> utilities.
>
> I will ask around among the "gurus" I know to see if anyone has ever seen
> this problem.
>
> "Kevin wrote in message

> >
> > Yesterday we were having all sorts of strange SQL errors in several
> > reports, causing our VFP app to crash with a fatal error(s). When you
> > would view the table in Fox, everything looked fine - no table
> > corruption was visible anywhere. Normal maintenance (Packing,
> > reindexing, etc.) didn't help at all.
> >
> > We have a third party utility that checks for all kinds of corruption,
> > and it found "Corrupted Delete Flags" on one or two records in several
> > of our large tables in the database container. The utility corrected
> > the errors, but it was tedious and time consuming because we had to
> > look at each table (we have a lot). A search of Microsoft's developer
> > and support sites didn't reveal any information about this type of
> > corruption (the MS programmer's guide and reference manuals don't say
> > very much either). Have you ever seen corrupted Delete Flags in Visual
> > FoxPro and do you know what causes it?
> >
> > Thanks ahead of time for any info!
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Kevin