I think Mike Sinclair started the same topic in April, under the heading "disappearing tables." I remembered the thread, too, and wondered if this was the second person to have the problem, but it looks like it's the same person reporting it for the second time. Mike, could that be what happened?
Since it appears Mike's is still the only database with this particular problem, I am suspicious that it is one of three things: 1) an application problem: drop table and/or create view commands hidden somewhere that Mike has forgotten about and/or not found. 2) a hardware problem. I'm serious. If, for example, there were a coded piece of information in the tables block of the #1 file with a one bit difference between a designation of a table and a view, then a bad pin on a NIC or cable could lead to information being changed in the #1 file. (I have seen, for example, a table name change with a letter being changed to another letter that was 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 ascii numbers lower.) 3) Something really unusual about the database or application, like a reserved word problem, that is resulting in this corruption. In any case, sending a copy of the before and after databases to RBTI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is probably the best idea. Bill On Tue, 09 Jul 2002 14:15:52 -0400, mike wrote: >Dear Alastair, > >Do you recall who else had this happen? I have been searching but I can't find >them! > >Mike > >Alastair Burr wrote: > >> Thankfully, I have not had this happen to me but there have been two or >> three people reporting tables turning mysteriously into views over the last >> few months. >> ================================================ 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/
