DBF Recovery in Case of Error 42S02 in MS Visual FoxPro 7.0

buryshane 12:19 am on February 8, 2011 | Answers: 1    
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• buryshane 12:19 am on February 8, 2011
  

  Microsoft Visual FoxPro is a relational database management system that can be used to develop any desktop, distributed client, or web-based applications. It uses an object-oriented programming approach and has advanced data handling capabilities. Sometimes while working with Visual FoxPro databases, you may encounter an unusual or abnormal behavior. The reasons could be many. There could be a data type mismatch, a header corruption, a function argument value may be invalid etc. All these scenarios would lead to database corruption in MS Visual FoxPro application. To overcome any such situation, you must go for DBF Recovery through a reliable third party utility.

  For instance, when you try to open a MS Visual FoxPro 7.0 database file, you may receive the following error message:

  “ERROR[42S02] [Microsoft][ODBC Visual FoxPro Driver]Not a table”

  Cause:
  The above error may have occurred due to anyone of the following reasons-
  An improper closing of the application
  An improper system shut down
  Simultaneous modification of the database file by two or more users
  A virus attack

  The error message would render your DBF file inaccessible and you would not be able to make any further changes to your database file. To repair corrupt DBF file and regain access to all the important tables, functions, and other objects of your database, you should try to restore the database using an updated backup. If you don’t have a backup, you should follow the below mentioned resolution steps.

  Resolution:

  You should take help of any third party DBF Repair software to repair the damaged database file. These software efficiently repair and recover corrupt database components created in various versions of dBase and MS Visual FoxPro.

  They allow previewing all the repaired database objects and have a ‘Live Update’ feature to enable installing the latest updates for the software. They enable you to manually select the corrupt DBF file and restore the repaired file at any user specified location.