Re: Spare empty tables

Anne Wainwright wrote:

> The tests? The 'Verify' that comes with the table repair utility?

no.. the Rebuild.. the Verify misses many things that the Rebuild fixes..
however, the Warnings that the Verify shows you, about "non a number",
"floating point error", and "low ascii character" problems are very
important.. unfortunately, there is no equivalent error message for similar
date field problems..


> On my book purchasing application I have now continual errors. The repair
> utility does not appear to fix them and records have been lost.

the repair tool is *not* a guarantee.. it is possible, thru hardware
failure and/or power supply fluctuation, to create a problem that can't be
fixed..

what kind of errors?.. in the worse case scenario, export to ascii, make a
new table from scratch, and import from the ascii to the new table.. it is
also possible to recover partial info from sec index files, which are
really tables too..


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