>I have a database in VFP 8.0 that gets corrupted consistently when I run the Referential Integrity builder. I get a message after running this that says '.DBC Internal Consistency error'. First, does anybody know why this would happen? And second, how can I recover my database?
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>When trying to open the database after this, a message states to delete and re-create the database index. Of course, I try this by deleting the 'dcx' file but can't recreate it.
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>(I have a backup but I would like to know why this is happening so I can prevent it from happening again, and just as important, maybe find out I have a problem in my database that may cause further problems down the line.)
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>Thanks for any help.


I had the same errors you did.
So I started using this replacement for referential integrity:
http://home.twmi.rr.com/ssawyer/content/ricode.htm