Re: DATA GETTING CORRUPTED

barbara@natick-amed02.army.mil wrote: : I'm new at working with Informix. We are running Informix Online For : some unknown reason every couple of days our data base seem to be : corrupted. Our hardware seems to be okay, for we don't show any kind of : error on the screen or when we reboot. What happens is in our money field : it will show **** : and when we run a report is will show as if the data had been entered : several times. Yet when you do a query it shows only once. Does any have : any ideas. I think we'll need more information before we can figure out what's going wrong. However, **** usually means that the value you are attempting to display requires more spaces than what you left for it. If it's in a screen, then your delimiters are too close together or your FORMAT string is too small. If it's a report or a DISPLAY statement, then your USING string is too small. June ---- June Tong Informix Software ---- ---- Senior Consultant (415) 926-6140 ---- ---- International Support junet@informix.com ---- ---- Location-du-jour: Menlo Park ----