How To Fix Corrupted Visual Foxpro 9 Dbf?

Published by Jacob Martin on April 22, 2015

Visual FoxPro is the data-centric object oriented database programming language which is developed and marketed by Microsoft Corporation.  It is integrated with relational database engine which extends the xBase capabilities of the Visual FoxPro to support the SQL (Structured Query Language) data query and manipulation. It is the dynamic programming language that doesn’t need any other programming environment? It stores your data in a form of tables that is stored in DBF file. The Foxpro 9 is the latest Versions of MS Visual FoxPro. In some cases, DBF file may get damaged and inaccessible that can lead to severe data loss and needs a repair to be fix the issue.

Imagine

You were trying to open tables I but you get the message “is not a table. You closed it and tried to open it again but you still got the same error message on your computer screen.

The table files of Visual FoxPro (DBF file) have 2 records – header record and data record. In the header record it has the complete structure of the FoxPro table and stores extra information about table. It starts from the file position zero.  The data records follow the table header in the following bytes and keep the actual data.

Under some cases the DBF file or Visual FoxPro table gets damaged and put you in need of repair tool. Corruption is the common issue of any database but the situation becomes worse when it leads to data loss. The most common reason of DBF file corruption are give below:

• File header or the header record corruption.
• Application malfunction
• Virus attack
• Improper system shutdown
• Power failure
• System crash.

Above is the few common reason that can lead to corruption in DBF file. If you come across any of the above given situations then you need to take immediate action.  In order to overcome this situation you need to recover DBF file by restoring it from the recent or the valid backup file. To make sure about the full safety of your database you should regular update your backup file.  But what if you didn’t have a proper or recent backup file with you?

Solution:

At such situation the last option left with you is to use a DBF file repair tool that has advanced and powerful commercial applications. This software is especially designed to scan the whole DBF file and extract the inaccessible data from it. DBF Repair Tool is the most excellent solutions to tackle all file corruption. It works well with dBase III, dBase IV, dBase V and Visual FoxPro 6.0 to 9.0. It can easily retrieve all DBF file objects like indexes, table name, column data type, primary key, and the column name. It has the highly-interactive user interface that doesn’t need the person to have any technical knowledge in order to operate it.

Steps To Fix Corrupted Visual Foxpro 9 Dbf:

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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