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  1. Sep 14th, 2000, 08:45 AM #1
    Guest
    Request for corruption. I can't seem to find any bona fide way of corrupting an Access db such that I can then test my resurrection code properly. Anyone got any ideas short of taser-ing my PC?

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    Matt
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  2. Sep 14th, 2000, 08:54 AM #2
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    A sure fire way to corrupt your database is to let the end user any where near it. This is a fail safe system for testing disaster recovery systems, as the customer is always the biggest disaster.

    Other than that, write a simple program that messes the data up. This could be done by putting crap values in the database, or you could read the file into a byte array, and scramble some of the bytes, and write the file back.
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  3. Sep 14th, 2000, 12:23 PM #3
    Guest
    from my own experience i have noticed that most
    access databases when exposed past their 1G limit
    become corrupted.

    this is not a constant, but you can try to explode
    it to the limit.
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