If you are doing the unload and then an immediate load are you sure that the data has been written to disk and the file closed before the load is attempted?
Regards, Alastair. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ed Rivkin To: RBASE-L Mailing List Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 2:09 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Strange Update Anne, Thanks for the suggestion. It was certainly behaving like a corrupted table. I ran the DB through R:Scope and it came through clean on both structure and data. Emmitt, good point but it seems odd that a Disc / Copy / Conn would cause what I am seeing. Since putting in a pause for 30 secs after the Conn (did that after posting my question), it is working fine. As I am updating 3 tables in the .rmd, I just thought it easier to keep everything together rather than 3 unloads.... Ed Sep 13, 2009 06:34:30 AM, [email protected] wrote: Try running R:Scope on the database. I did have something similar happen when updating an operations table. Every time a record was updated a 2nd copy of the record would appear. Found the customer table, which is a feeder table, had corrupted. Reloaded the customer table from a backup copy and all has been running fine. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [RBASE-L] - Strange Update From: Ed Rivkin <[email protected]> Date: Fri, September 11, 2009 11:04 pm To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) I am curious if someone has faced a similar situation. The problem revolves around a .rmd file originally written for my application 20 years ago using r:base 4.0. I update a table monthly with 140 entries; one for each account. To do so, I print a report to disk, load it into a table and append the table to my master table which is the current Rent table. In addition all rows for accounts with a zero balance are moved to the Rent History table and deleted from the Rent Table Prior to the print / load / append the DB is disconnected and the DB is copied so I have a recovery point in case something fails. The only changes from 4.0-4.5 - 7.6 are the screen handling messages. After testing the conversion everything seemed to work fine. Running parallel we are having a strange problem. Many of the current Rent records are duplicated, others tripled and quadrupled and some of the history data is finding it's way back into the Rent file. When I commented out the Disconnect / Copy to Disk / Connect everything worked fine again. Am I hitting some sort of DB corruption issue? Should I put a Pause for 30-45 secs after the connect? Or am I totally missing something else. Thanks as always, Ed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.94/2367 - Release Date: 09/13/09 05:50:00
