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    Corrupted database

    I have a corrupted database and not sure where to look. If someone can give me a hint?? Here are the symtoms:
    Expense table. Accounts Table. Expense amount posts to accounts based on account number. Expense "lookup" from account table for account number and account name. Account name from accounts table fills in expense "purpose" based on account number.

    NO, I can't restore to an earlier backup due to structure changes made since problem showed up.

    OK: Symptoms:
    1. Enter an expense. Enter account number and amount. The amount posts to accounts table in the account number one number higher than it should. If I enter an expense to accout 6100, it posts to 6150.
    2. I have subtract on delete rule. If I delete an expense for account 6100, the program posts to accounts and subtracts the amount from account 6150, one higher than it is supposed to.
    3. If I look at the expense table, the account number is correct but it posted to accounts in the next higher account number.
    4. After an expense has been entered. If I go to the expense table and try to change the account number, say from 6100 to 7100, I enter 7100 in the account number field and, as soon as I tab away from it, it changes to 7200, the next number up.
    The only way to make it stop is to delete the posting and lookup field rules. Rebuilding them brings the problem back again.

    I tried to make this as simple as I could but I know it ain't easy when reading someone else's descriptions.

    Jim
    Jim Belanger
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    Re: Corrupted database

    IT ALMOST SOUNDS LIKE THE ACCOUNT NUMBER IS AN AUTOINCREMEMT FIELD. Could that be possible?

    Tom

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      #3
      Re: Corrupted database

      If not as Tom indicates, maybe an index problem--check to see if any have been truncated.
      Mike
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        #4
        Re: Corrupted database

        No, the account number is not an auto increment number.
        In the Accounts table It is a user entered number, always required, character field, simple mask 0000. In the Expense table it is character field, user entered, always required, validations "must exist in accounts table", lookup in accts table to fill in acct nr and purpose. It is set for "Force Closest match".

        Indexes:
        Expense table indexes all look OK except that A5 seems to have added an index. Index name _A5_Record_; Order Expression RECNO(), Ascending, include ALL.

        The Accounts table has the same index added. Plus, there are several indexes I don't ever recall adding. I'll check with prior backups to see if I can figure out when they were added. There are 5 more than I expected but they may be valid based on filters defined.
        Jim Belanger

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          #5
          Re: Corrupted database

          You said that in one table the account Number was Numeric, and in the other, it was a character. Are you converting one to the other when you test for "Must exist in"?

          Tom

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            #6
            Re: Corrupted database

            OOOPs, sorry. It is a 4 digit character field in both tables.
            I just deleted the extra indexes in the accounts table and it appear, right now without further testing, that the problem is gone. Gotta do more testing to determine that but I am in the process, right now, and will let you know.
            Jim Belanger

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              #7
              Re: Corrupted database

              Thank you to the suggestion to look at indexes. I deleted 7 indexes (all of them) in the accounts table. Alpha5 rebuilt two of them. The problem is gone. If I deleted an index I need, I'll cross that bridge when I get an error message!
              Jim Belanger

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                #8
                Re: Corrupted database

                Jim, maybe now is the time to re-think your backup strategy. <grin>

                -- tom

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                  Re: Corrupted database

                  That's always a question aye? Well, I went back two months and the problem was there then, It just never popped up until someone entered the wrong account number for an expense and then tried to change it, then delete it. I checked another program that has been operating without problems for two years with the same engine and it has the problem too, too may manufactured indexes. So, I will need to modify that one too.

                  I have had index problems before. Usually, they are missing indexes that, for no reason, disappear. then, we get error messages. I haven't had a problem with extra indexes created by Alpha before though. This is a first for me.
                  Jim Belanger

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