Hi to all!
Have a client with a strange data corruption issue. When I went to the site
was receiving a "Not a Table" message. I said to myself, piece of cake,
just
fix the affected table(s) or restore from a backup and go on. But when I
tried to
fix the tables received another err
Aida I. Rivera-Benítez wrote:
> Hi to all!
>
> Have a client with a strange data corruption issue. When I went to the site
> was receiving a "Not a Table" message. I said to myself, piece of cake,
> just
> fix the affected table(s) or restore from a backup and g
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To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: Strange Data Corruption Issue
Aida I. Rivera-Benítez wrote:
> Hi to all!
>
> Have a client with a strange data corruption issue. When I went to the
site
> was receiving a "Not a Table" message. I said to myself, piece of cake,
>
: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:49 AM
To: profox@leafe.com
Subject: RE: Strange Data Corruption Issue
Check the write ahead cache on the disk drive too. I think this went back to
NT4 days when they (M$) started playing with cache. Al
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Thanks Mike!
Will do that before I leave to make sure, still checking
if I find something else, think you are close is something
like that ... a program is installed that somehow got inside
the file and replaced it with spaces, it could be the AV or
other similar programs ... looking into that rig
> I don't think so, worked in this scenario before and the tables either
dissapear completely (files deleted) or some records are replaced or added
with junk values
Actually, there's a possibility to get files like these. It's even built
into Windows and called NTFS. When you change or update file
Hi
It happened to me when I unplugged my laptop before it finished the shut
down stuff.
E.
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Aida I. Rivera-Benítez wrote:
> Thanks Mike!
>
> Will do that before I leave to make sure, still checking
> if I find something else, think you are close is something
> like that ... a program is installed that somehow got inside
> the file and replaced it with spaces, it could be the AV or
> othe
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:27 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC
wrote:
> In our Best Practices document here at the day-job, we advise our
> customers to exclude our program and data folders from the A/V scans.
Me too. Speaking of which, has anyone come across the SMB2 issue with
delayed file creati
Well I found the problem!
or the problem found me...
The hard disk crashed gave me a dump error message, showed
the blue screen of dead and later finally died. After the funeral,
reinstalled in another computer and let them working.
Thanks to all for the excellent suggestions!
Regards.
AiR
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Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 7:57 PM
To:
Subject: Re: Strange Data Corruption Issue
> Aida I. Rivera-Benítez wrote:
>> Hi to all!
>>
>> Have a client with a strange data corruption issue. When I went to the
>> site
>> was receiving a "Not a Table&quo
Ajoy Khaund wrote:
> Hey Michael,
>
> Can I have a copy of your best practices document if its not confidential.
>
> That sounds like a good idea to give clients.
Well, I can't give you the official day-time gig document, but let me
just sum it up:
- use a UPS (uninterrupted power supply) to g
You should turn off Opportunistic locking on the computers too.
--- On Thu, 10/29/09, MB Software Solutions, LLC
wrote:
> From: MB Software Solutions, LLC
> Subject: Re: Strange Data Corruption Issue
> To: "ProFox Email List"
> Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 1:51
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"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if
both are frozen."
- Edward V. Berard, "Life-Cycle Approaches"
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From: "MB Software Solutions,LLC"
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 11:21 AM
Right click "Computer" and select "Manage", you'll find "Disk Management" in
there. Right click "Disk 0", you'll find the setting on the "Policies" tab.
Or RUN "diskmgmt.msc"
Or Right click a drive in Explore, "Properties", select Hardware, select the
drive, select Properties (you may need to cli
Tracy Pearson wrote:
> There's a couple of programmatic ways, but I've not got that code handy
> right now.
If there's a programmatic way for a Windows client to tell if the server is
using
write caching, then your VFP program could give your user a warning: "Please
turn
write caching off on t
Ajoy Khaund wrote:
> Ok
>
> How do you disable disable write-behind caching on local and network drives
> ?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=disabling+write-behind+caching
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Paul McNett wrote:
> Tracy Pearson wrote:
>> There's a couple of programmatic ways, but I've not got that code handy
>> right now.
>
> If there's a programmatic way for a Windows client to tell if the server is
> using
> write caching, then your VFP program could give your user a warning: "Pleas
You're not kidding
Al
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Behalf Of MB Software Solutions, LLC
Paul McNett wrote:
> Tracy Pearson wrote:
>> There's a couple of programmatic ways, but I've not got that code handy
>> right now.
>
The catch is this has to be run where the data is stored. You can't tell
from a workstation if a server drive has the cache on.
I'll look it up again tonight and get back here with it.
Tracy
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From: Paul McNett
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:53 AM
Tracy Pearson wro
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