Recovering ODBC-related error in corrupted DBF file in dBase III!

Published by Jacob Martin on July 2, 2015

The DBF (dBase File) files in dBase database system is used as support for backend for various applications such as Visual FoxPro. It contains of files of  exhibits header and data records where header is used to describe DBF structure whereas records of data that  exhibits the actual text of the text field that is used by the database. Some of DBF header file gets corrupt, there are many various reason that make the database corruption. You need to make use of certain methods that can recover corrupt DBF file. Apart from this if you are unable to repair DBF file then you need to make use of third party software such as DBF File Repair software for restoring the DBF file and helps you in accessing the database.

You need to consider where you have interactive website that is made in the asp.net with dBase III which provides a backend support. The users are required te get signed in the website with their password and username. Once you get the complaints from users who were unable to get logged in to and everytime has to face following error message:

  “ERROR [42S02] [Microsoft][ODBC Visual FoxPro Driver]File ‘table.dbf’ does not exist.”

 Cause:

This above mentioned error message caused due to DBF file that may get corrupted. The corruption of the DBF file can be due to virus infections,bugs in the application, header file and damage, simultaneous modification from multiple users, etc.

 Resolution:

 For resolving such situation of error and have a error free smooth log in then you need to go with repairing option of DBF file. Then you need to check the backup file for DBF file. If you have a updated and clean database backup then you can easily restore the DBF database from your backup.

Sometimes you may not have a clean backup or if such a situation occurs like that then you must go with the third party recovery software for DBF File which help you in recovering back your DBF files. Such tools exhibits read only behaviour and does not overwrite on original database file if you are using the fast but sophisticated algorithms.

The DBF File Recovery Tool helps you in repairing your corrupt and damaged DBF files from any type of corruptions. This tool helps you in repairing your created MS Visual FoxPro 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, and 9.0. It helps you in recovering various DBF objects such as  indexes, column data type, primary keys,  table name, and even the column name. It even supports dBase III, IV, and V. You will find that it is even compatible with any of the Windows versions operating system.

Complete guide for recovering ODBC-related error in corrupted DBF file in dBase III!

Step 1: Fisrtly you need to download, Install and Run DBF File Repair software.

Step 2: Then you need to select database application and database file to repair and then click on the ‘Start Scan’ button to start the scanning process.

Step 3: Then scanning process is in progress, if you want to stop it then click on ‘Stop’ button.

Step 4: Then you need to select the destination path by clicking brows button from dialogue box. And press ‘OK’ button.

Step 5: Then you need to select the database by clicking ‘Brows’ button in which you want to save the recovered data of DBF file. And click on ‘Finish’ button.

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