[NF] Dabo -- write once for 2 masters: win and web? (was Re: VFP index corruption)

2008-12-11 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Stephen Russell wrote: I am in the process of a conversion from real VFP tables onto SQL 2K5 at the moment and although it is not simple, it's a great deal easier than a complete rewrite. Comparative testing with C# reveals little performance increase but I must admit that I do like the Eye

Re: [NF] Dabo -- write once for 2 masters: win and web? (was Re: VFP index corruption)

2008-12-11 Thread Ed Leafe
On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:11 AM, MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: With your recent news about Dabo, does this basically mean that your code will run on the desktop and the same code would run for the browser web based app? No, and a few other people have gotten a bit

Re: [NF] Dabo -- write once for 2 masters: win and web? (was Re: VFP index corruption)

2008-12-11 Thread Stephen Russell
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:11 AM, MB Software Solutions General Account [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Russell wrote: I am in the process of a conversion from real VFP tables onto SQL 2K5 at the moment and although it is not simple, it's a great deal easier than a complete rewrite.

RE: VFP index corruption

2008-12-10 Thread Dave Crozier
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff Flight Sent: 09 December 2008 22:39 To: 'ProFox Email List' Subject: RE: VFP index corruption We have been having indexing problems lately. In fact I was able to locate some of our weirdo problems as being

Re: VFP index corruption

2008-12-10 Thread Jean MAURICE
Jean, have you got RECNO() in your index expressions ? another jean ! -- Jean MAURICE Grenoble - France - Europe www.atoutfox.org www.aedtf.org ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

RE: VFP index corruption

2008-12-10 Thread Michael Madigan
: Dave Crozier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: VFP index corruption To: 'ProFox Email List' profox@leafe.com Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 4:02 AM Jean, Over the past 2 years we haven't had a single index or database corruption even though our tables are around the 1.5Gb individual size

Re: VFP index corruption

2008-12-10 Thread Michael Madigan
I worked with a dufus who had databases related on recno(). Unbelievable. * --- On Wed, 12/10/08, Jean MAURICE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jean MAURICE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: VFP index corruption To: ProFox Email List profox

Re: VFP index corruption

2008-12-10 Thread Brian Abbott
Hi Jean Just to reinforce what Dave Crozier has said, we have quite a few customers with 30+ users and tables 1Gb+. Our experience over the last several years has been that the key to stability is the network infratructure. If the hardware/network is good, monthly reindexing is sufficient

RE: VFP index corruption

2008-12-10 Thread Geoff Flight
the advice re hardware esp NICs. I will look at that as well. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Madigan Sent: Wednesday, 10 December 2008 8:08 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: RE: VFP index corruption I agree, rewriting the whole

Re: VFP index corruption

2008-12-10 Thread Stephen Russell
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:02 AM, Dave Crozier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jean, Over the past 2 years we haven't had a single index or database corruption even though our tables are around the 1.5Gb individual size with indexes that range from 100 to 700Mb with about 130 users working 24/7.

VFP index corruption

2008-12-09 Thread Jean Haidar
We have  problems with one of VFP TABLE , it give an intermittent error message like this Index file \\lrd1fil2\vfpprod\mw\mwdata\profile.cdx is corrupted. Please rebuild it.     we are rebuilding the PROIFLE.DBF often ; sometimes every 2 days  by using these commands:   for example:   USE 

Re: VFP index corruption

2008-12-09 Thread Jean Haidar
Correction below in Section 1) and 2) From: Jean Haidar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 12:19:41 PM Subject: VFP index corruption  UPDATE  (lcUpdateTable) ;     SET lcUpdate WHERE      case_id = lcCurRecord

Re: VFP index corruption

2008-12-09 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Jean Haidar wrote: We have problems with one of VFP TABLE , it give an intermittent error message like this Index file \\lrd1fil2\vfpprod\mw\mwdata\profile.cdx is corrupted. Please rebuild it. we are rebuilding the PROIFLE.DBF often ; sometimes every 2 days by using these commands: for

Re: VFP index corruption

2008-12-09 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
On Tue, December 9, 2008 1:57 pm, MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: There's a problem called Stonefield Database Toolkit that is absolutely great at DBF index and structure maintenance. Check it out here: http://stonefield.com/sdt.aspx It's absolutely worth the $495 price. DOH!

VFP Index corruption

2008-12-09 Thread Jean Haidar
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Re: VFP index corruption

2008-12-09 Thread Jean Haidar
From: MB Software Solutions General Account [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 12:57:56 PM Subject: Re: VFP index corruption Jean Haidar wrote: We have  problems with one of VFP TABLE , it give an intermittent error message like this Index file

Re: VFP index corruption

2008-12-09 Thread Michael Madigan
1. Check the event log of the computer that holds the data to see that there are no bad blocks or other disk problems in the event logs. 2. Make sure opportunistic locking is turned off on the server. 3. Run scan disk ___ Post Messages to:

Re: VFP index corruption

2008-12-09 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Jean Haidar wrote: we are only dealing with DBF not DBF/DBC. What methology the SDT utility is using in terms of fixing indexes other than what we currently doing? do you know? use CUSTOMER delete tag all index on CUST_ID tag CUST_ID index on POSTALCODE tag POSTALCODE SDT uses

Re: VFP Index corruption

2008-12-09 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
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Re: VFP index corruption

2008-12-09 Thread Sytze de Boer
Software Solutions General Account [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 12:57:56 PM Subject: Re: VFP index corruption Jean Haidar wrote: We have problems with one of VFP TABLE , it give an intermittent error message like this Index file \\lrd1fil2\vfpprod

Re: VFP index corruption

2008-12-09 Thread Jean Haidar
From: Michael Madigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 12:57:11 PM Subject: Re: VFP index corruption 1.  Check the event log of the computer that holds the data to see that there are no bad blocks or other disk problems in the event logs. 2.  Make sure

Re: VFP index corruption

2008-12-09 Thread Sytze de Boer
block? don't you think this error would pop up in another Index File or some other DBF file? Thanks, Jean From: Michael Madigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 12:57:11 PM Subject: Re: VFP index corruption 1

Re: VFP index corruption

2008-12-09 Thread Fred Taylor
: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 12:57:11 PM Subject: Re: VFP index corruption 1. Check the event log of the computer that holds the data to see that there are no bad blocks or other disk problems in the event logs. 2. Make sure opportunistic locking is turned off on the server. 3. Run scan

Re: VFP index corruption

2008-12-09 Thread Jean Haidar
Yes, the issue started recently.. Jean From: Sytze de Boer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 1:09:26 PM Subject: Re: VFP index corruption Jean, I think I agree with you i.e. why look for a toolkit when your command

Re: VFP index corruption

2008-12-09 Thread Jean Haidar
the size of the .DBF is 1.1 gig and the cdx is 158 Mg that would be be an issue? Jean From: Fred Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 1:15:22 PM Subject: Re: VFP index corruption Make sure the size of your .CDX file

Re: VFP index corruption

2008-12-09 Thread Fred Taylor
Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 1:15:22 PM Subject: Re: VFP index corruption Make sure the size of your .CDX file isn't the issue. With 29 tags and that much data in the table, you may have gone over the 2GB file limit. Fred On Tue, Dec 9

Re: VFP index corruption

2008-12-09 Thread Michael Madigan
, you may be running close to capacity on that disk too. --- On Tue, 12/9/08, Jean Haidar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jean Haidar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: VFP index corruption To: profox@leafe.com Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 2:11 PM The data reside on Citrix Server

Re: VFP index corruption

2008-12-09 Thread Michael Madigan
We reindex our databases every night and it has seemed to make many issues go away. --- On Tue, 12/9/08, Fred Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Fred Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: VFP index corruption To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 3:35 PM

RE: VFP index corruption

2008-12-09 Thread Geoff Flight
of the reasons. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jean Haidar Sent: Wednesday, 10 December 2008 6:13 AM To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: VFP index corruption the size of the .DBF is 1.1 gig and the cdx is 158 Mg that would be be an issue? Jean