I have a perplexing problem with several customers that I am unable to resolve. They are set up on NT 4 SP6a servers with NT Workstation SP6a clients. Data becomes corrupt sporadically. They insist NIC cards, cabling and all other suggestions have checked out. I know that desktop databases are prone to corruption but need to find a way to isolate this issue. Can anyone provide any suggestions?
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Are they rebooting the workstations with files open (eg in Word) or the server(s) without first checking to ensure everything has been saved and closed? This may cause problems.
What applications are the data held in? Is it a desktop database or something else?
John
What applications are the data held in? Is it a desktop database or something else?
John
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That's a real possibility...it is a desktop database. The software is WinQuery - not a common program anyone around here would know much, if anything about. We program the software and see this issue arise every now and then. 100% of the past issues were resolved via network changes or hardware changes. The client doesn't believe us so I am just fishing for some obscure success stories
Thanks for the reply John!
Rich
Thanks for the reply John!
Rich
PalmStrike
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Another thing to have a peek at is see how full the hard drives are, our file server here started corrupting a few files, purely because the drives only had like about 3-4Mb of free space.
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