Re: bcheck problems

Posted in 1997

David Williams — Wed, 29 Jan 1997 22:41:15 +0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <5ch33a$6jc@arther.castle.net>, Joseph Kormann <jkormann@castle.net> writes >Hi. We're using SE5.01/UC1. Our new sys-admin was running a bcheck against all >the tables in our database. He cancelled it then re-ran it later. On the >second run he got data-corruption all over the place (lost rows, etc).. > >Any ideas on: > >1) Why the bcheck, on the second run, would cause / report errors in the data. >2) How to fix this without alot of reentry. > >Thanks, >Joseph Possibly the second bcheck got further than the first? bcheck -y to fix it. -- David Williams