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Re: A war story about a damaged root file
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Jerry Fochtman <[log in to unmask]>
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Jerry Fochtman <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 2 Jun 1997 08:32:10 -0500
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At 11:04 AM 5/29/97 -0600, Ken Paul wrote:
/snip
>
>If you have a dataset with a capacity of 5000 and 3000 entries within the
>dataset the free entry count is 2000.  Someone changes the capacity to
>10,000 and the free entry count is changed to 7000.  If someone else were
>to restore the OLD root file, then IMAGE/DBINFO/QUERY would report the
>number of entries as -2000 because 5000 - 7000 = -2000.
>
>/end IMAGE internals 101
>
>/begin plug alert
>
>Adager is the only tool (that I know of) which can detect and correct this
>problem.

/plug-alert

DBGeneral's database diagnostic features also detect and prompt the user
for permission to correct this as well as a number of other
inconsistencies.
Although DBGeneral and Adager provide these features, I do not know whether
DBChangePlus or Flexibase provide these same features.

/end-plug

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