Hi.

I have a customer that after some net problems have been lost all data of some tables of
database. No corrupt, the table appears totally empty. Is it possible?

Thank you

Francisco


The only way I can think of for that to happen is the data portion of the tables (ie edbtbl etc) to be deleted. With the metadata now in a catalog that would give the empty file look. I haven't seen anything in ElevateDB doing this.

If they've had network problems it could be someone or something has just deleted the flies, but I doubt its ElevateDB.

Roy Lambert [Team Elevate]

Francisco,

<< I have a customer that after some net problems have been lost all data of
some tables of database. No corrupt, the table appears totally empty. Is it
possible? >>

No, not from ElevateDB.  If ElevateDB experiences real corruption, the
tables won't be empty, they'll report all sorts of errors and ElevateDB
won't touch them any further.

Did you check the table files (.edbtbl) on disk to see if they were < 32k ?
If they aren't, then the data is still there.  If they are, then someone
deleted the table files and ElevateDB re-created them as empty when you
tried to open them in your application.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim.

Tables are 1 Kb, I think that the files was deleted by system but I don't know how. Is
very strange.

Thank you

Francisco,

<Tables are 1 Kb, I think that the files was deleted by system but I don't know how. Is
very strange.>

A possible cause: Curious user attempts to open *.EDBTbl files. O.S. ask him how to open and ... the user chooses notepad or something worst.
Opens it, saves it and result is files are truncated.

Tiago

Tiago,

It's possible but I don't think it because it was happend in several tables all opened by
the same unit of the application and before there was network problems.