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    Records not showing up in report

    I am running a certain report and records that should be there are not. I have done the only two things I know how which are: Re-indexing all the tables and then running the dsalvage program to fix the data bases (tables). After doing both these records are still not showing up. The other interesting thing is that when I re-index the main data base I notice that it only goes 85% of the way on each of the indexes. It's as if it's indexing only so far and then stopping. Would very much appreciate any ideas as to fixing this problem. Thank you
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    RE: Records not showing up in report

    James -

    Have you done a database compact? If not, try it, it may
    solve your problem. If not, let us know

    Lowell

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      RE: Records not showing up in report

      Thank you for your response. I tried the database compact but this did not solve my problem. In fact while running it I noticed the same problem of only running 89%

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        RE: Records not showing up in report

        The 85% stop may indicate a corrupt record. This happened to me last week. I was able to track down the bad record, delete it, pack the table and the problem was solved. Put your table in record order and go down roughly 84% (if 85 is the actual stop point) and check each record one at a time. This assumes of course that you don't have a million records in the table.
        Peter
        AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

         [email protected]
        https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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          RE: Records not showing up in report

          Thanks for the idea. I can see exactly what record it is stopping at. I went to that exact record and deleted it and compacted and still get the index to just run to that record. I tried this 3 times with each new record 15300 (which is the record number it stops at. You mention checking the records. What am I checking for? Thanks for your help

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            RE: Records not showing up in report

            Usually you see either garbage characters in one or more fields or you see data mixed up from other fields or records. Try exporting some of the data around record #15300 to Excel and see if it looks ok in Excel. Or try breaking up the table in groups of records into a brand new table of identical structure. The idea is to try to find out what record or records is causing the trouble - if not a corrupted table structure itself. Trial & error I'm afraid.
            Peter
            AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

             [email protected]
            https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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              RE: Records not showing up in report

              You might try going into field rules, then do an update field rules and select Mark Records that do not update. This may take awhile, but when it is done, you could sort on the Marked Records and take a look at the problem.

              Good Luck

              Tom

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                RE: Records not showing up in report

                James,

                Try using the record order index which will free you from all indexes and also get out of any attached Query. At this point you should be able to see all the records and navigate normally to the end of the records.
                You can also copy the table to another table name without indexes and see if this table copy looks clean. Generally the corruption you would be looking for wold be any high ASCII values beyond the keyboard, or low values below which is an ASCII character 32. You can have Alpha use functions to do a logical search for any weird and out of range characters in your indexed fields if you don't care to view them manually.

                If your data is clean, your problem may be a corrupted CDX file header which would cause the index process to crash on sorting. This corruption is where the index information is stored, so you will have to either overwrite the CDX file with a clean but older CDX file and then update the indexes, or delete the CDX file with the same name as the table and start your indexes all over again, presumably after copying donw their text descriptions.

                Hope this helps!
                Dave

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