I feel sorry for your sister. She must not have had any pull with the administrator of the network. I worked for the government for seven years and managed a huge system on Novell (I was both the network manager and a programmer then) which started out on Novell 3.11 and moved through all versions eventually to 6.0 Never had a single index corruption in all those years. Seriously, not one. I had little if any memo corruption also. I learned early what optimal settings to use (you can find them here on the UT) and it paid off. I didn't experience index and memo corruption until I started working with apps on peer-to-peer networks in small mom and pop shops on Windows 98/2K/XP systems where the owners change settings on you following someone else's idea of finetuning that they found on the web without realizing the repercussions. What I would sometimes give for the old days! :o)

>We think it's the in memory index corruption because of caching which VFP 8 now reports butVFP7 ignored. We're going to use SYS(1104) in the error handler with a retry on the LOCATE. The description of the problem in earlier threads matches our problem.
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>My sister managed a big Fox app on a Novell a couple years back - index corruption was a nightmare then for her. My systems were on NT, no problems. She was so jealous! Especially after rebuilding a 3 million record customer table with about 20 tags every night for months.
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>Thanks Jim
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>>David,
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>>Is it possible that there's WRITE cacheing on the server's DB HD?... or even on workstations? I don't know anyone who trusts that stuff and turning it OFF seems to be pretty much universal.
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>>I recently had a problem where network adapters had 'sleep mode' set on at factory (all DELL systems). a sudden short-term sleep might do who knows!?!?
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>>Finally, long ago and with a different NOS (Novell 3.11) we had daily index corruptions. These were real. We had the most expensive server available at the time, a Tricord model XXX. Turned out it had never been 'certified' for Novell. Changing to a clunky sounding (by comparison) Compaq ??? pentium 90 with 256MB and a 20+ drive RAID array solved that one nicely.
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>>One more thing... I wonder if older OS' on workstations might have some compatibility problems with latest storage/locking scheme of 2003 server.
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>>good luck
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