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. Regards Ajoy Khaund Neamati Road Near Bhogdoi Bridge Jorhat 785001-21 Assam, India Tel: 91-376-2351288 Cell: 91-94350-92287 Mail: [email protected] Mail: [email protected] http://teaanalyst.blogspot.com/ "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." - Edward V. Berard, "Life-Cycle Approaches" -------------------------------------------------- From: "MB Software Solutions,LLC" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 7:57 PM To: <[email protected]> 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, >> just >> fix the affected table(s) or restore from a backup and go on. But when I >> tried to >> fix the tables received another error and for the first time in more than >> 20 >> years >> my fixdbf program didn't work. Upon further inspection of the affected >> tables (8), >> noticed that the contents was not there, there were filled with spaces, >> so >> no wonder, >> nothing to recover. >> >> Had to restore from a backup and that solve the problem. Now I'm >> wondering >> is it a >> hard disk crashing or network failure, well 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, or is there any utility or antivirus that does >> this? so I can remove it. >> >> Regards. > > > Hi Aida, > > 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. > > -- > Mike Babcock, MCP > MB Software Solutions, LLC > President, Chief Software Architect > http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com > http://fabmate.com > http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/af59fb8e0fd5434ab0410c517c352...@compaq ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
