G'day William, Feeling your pain at this end.
I am running R:BASE Win 6.5++ on a W2K HP OmniBook 6000 and have only rarely experienced losing data, and nearly always after a crash. Best clue I can think of, "What change occurred immediately prior to the problem manifesting?" At 17:46 28/05/02 -0700, you wrote: >Hoping for help and providing a warning: > >We have begun to encounter REPEATED index corruptions, resulting in a >scenario in which rows seem to both exist and not exist at the same >time. The usual tell-tale clue is if one were to compare the row counts >returned by the LIST TABLE and SELECT COUNT(*) FROM they are >different. And the data is NOT retrievable. > >The only common link seems, at this time, to be that the tables in >question have UNIQUE indexes declared. We have begun to remove these >indexes in an effort to contain this problem. Maybe a bit late, as it has >already cost us substantial amount of money due to invoices not being >calculated correctly because the details of the charges got "lost". > >Has anyone else experienced such behavior? Is this a noted issue? This >issue has moved from table to table, so I am not considering it a coding >issue, and I have way too many projects to debug index issues, so any help >would be appreciated. > >Windows 2000 & NT 4.0; RBWin 6.5++ > >Also, this behavior has happened on databases that do not share hardware, >so I have discounted the possibility of NIC or other hardware failures. Warmest regards, Tom Grimshaw coy: Just For You Software tel: 612 9552 3311 fax: 612 9566 2164 mobile: 0414 675 903 post: PO Box 470 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia street: 3/66 Wentworth Park Rd Glebe NSW 2037 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.just4usoftware.com.au "... the control of impulse -- is the first principle of civilization."-- Will Durant, Pulitzer Prize winning philosopher, writer and historian the most needed product in the world can be found at www.thewaytohappiness.org This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential to the intended recipient and may be privileged. If you have received this email inadvertently or you are not the intended recipient, you may not disseminate, distribute, copy or in any way rely on it. Further, you should notify the sender immediately and delete the email from your computer. Whilst we have taken precautions to alert us to the presence of computer viruses, we cannot guarantee that this email and any files transmitted with it are free from such viruses. ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
