Fixing Corruption In MS Visual FoxPro 9.0 Database

<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08inappears every time you try to access the database.
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At times, you may view that your MS Visual FoxProThe root cause for the error message is MS Visual
9.0 database is behaving abnormally. Some of theFoxPro 9.0 database corruption due to improper
abnormal symptoms could be an error message whilesystem shutdown.
opening any database table, invalid characters in placeResolution:
of pre-defined values, and and more. The main reasonThe database corruption error message can be
for abnormal behavior of the database is its corruptionsurmounted by following the below steps:
due some logical crash. Few common reasons forUse a complete database backup and perform
corruption of MS Visual FoxPro 9.0 database arerestoration.
abnormal termination, faulty network devices,However, in case of database backup unavailability,
simultaneous modifications, conflicting third-partyyou will need to search for a commercial DBF File
software, and incompatible service packs. ToRepair utility.
overcome such database corruption scenarios, theA third-party DBF Repair application uses effective
user can use an up-to-date backup and performrepair techniques to repair logically damaged MS Visual
restoration. However, restoration fails in cases whereFoxPro 9.0 database and restore it at a new and safe
the user either forgets to create a database or thelocation. The original database during the repair
database backup itself gets damaged. In such cases,process remains intact. The tool is easy-to-understand
the database users can use a third-party DBF Fileand allows even a non-technical person to perform
Repair application to repair his/her corrupted database.repair.
To illustrate the above case, consider a real-timeDBF Recovery Softwareis a comprehensive solution
scenario wherein you execute a query to modify yourto repair databases created in MS Visual FoxPro 9.0,
MS Visual FoxPro 9.0 database. While the query wasMS Visual FoxPro 8.0, and MS Visual FoxPro 7.0. The
performing the modification, the system shutdown duetool also repairs databases built in dBase III, dBase IV,
to power failure. However, the next time you tried toand dBase V. Supported by Windows 7, Vista, 2003,
mount the database, you encountered an errorXP, and 2000, the DBF Repair tool creates a new
message that did not allow you to access therepaired file that can be attached to existing database.
database records. Moreover, the same error message