Hi.
Too bad I didn't succeded to persuade my boss to buy it.
>As you noted, records will no longer be lost in VFP8, especially with SP1.
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>But I just want to mention a couple of things:
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The big one was because some bug in windows client. After a blue screen, and entire 50 MB table was filled with chr(0). I've noted the system message, something about delayed writes. I've found detailed info in MS KB, I don't have the article id.
>1) The described situation is not necessarily the only one that causes loss of data. Rather, it *may* be the only one for which a reproducible situation could be achieved. So it is possible that other losses of records have been addressed by the fix now available.
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>2) Someone, way back, had described some lengthy dialogue with MS Support on the problem and had found that ensuring that a table had 2 "dummy" fields at the very start, one I and one C(10) when the first field otherwise was an I PK, the incidence of loss went way way down.
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>cheers
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