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Need to Remove a Table Missing a File Name
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
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Thread ID:
00897430
Message ID:
00897438
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>I had a program go bad that managed to add a table with no filename to a database. If I do a "List Tables" command, "[path]\.dbf" appears in the list, and I cannot reference the file to remove it from the database.
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>I tried going into the DBC file to mark the table record for delete. It removed it from the list, however the database wasn't able to validate. Is there a reliable way to remove the nameless table?
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>Thanks!
>Michael Reynolds

Try to open the DBC with USE < dbcname > and browse it to see if there's a record without an Objectname. If so, delete that record and pack the DBC.
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