[AccessD] Dropped records...Boatloads of them

[Jim Lawrence]

ADO. :-)

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janet Erbach" <jerbach.db at gmail.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 2:03:13 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Dropped records...Boatloads of them

Wow.  So are there any other solutions besides:

1) hardwire the network connections
2) install UPS at each workstation

Both of which are due to be scheduled for the 12th of Never...

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
wrote:

> Yes,  that can happen through a dropped connection when data is being
> written.  I've seen uit
> happen occasionally.
>
> You get a corrupt index. The data is still there, but Access can't find it.
>
>
>
> On 26 May 2015 at 14:35, Janet Erbach wrote:
>
> > Hello all -
> >
> > I've corresponded with you all in the last couple of months about
> > records dropping from an access database in a manufacturing
> > environment.  About once a week we'd find 1-2 dropped records in a
> > tool crib database.   We installed UPS's in the area where this was
> > happening and...fingers crossed...so far so good.  No dropped records
> > since they went in 3 weeks ago.
> >
> > Today I learned that a manufacturing scrap database was missing
> > records, too.  868,105 records to be exact:  All records from 2014 and
> > several months worth from 2015.  Thankfully I was able to restore them
> > from a shadow copy.
> >
> > The likelihood of an end-user deleting all that data manually is so
> > slim that I don't even consider it a possibility.  Can a noisy
> > wireless network environment and/or power brown-outs cause such a
> > large chunk of data to go missing like that?
> >
> > Janet Erbach
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