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Paradox file corruption

Brian Long's hugely popular article from Issue 42, plus his item from The Delphi Clinic in Issue 17 on the same theme. If you use any kind of database engine, but especially the BDE with Paradox files, you will definitely want to check out this material A reader of The Delphi Magazine wrote to me with the following query: I read your summary of precautions regarding Paradox table and index corruption in multi-user applications on page 52 of Issue 17, implemented all the measures, but I still get corrupted tables and index files every now and again. Are there any more things you can think of? Well, indeed there are. Since writing that entry I have been collecting other useful corruption avoiding tips and techniques that I will list here. First of all though, below is a summary of what was highlighted in Issue 17.