Re: [mdb-dev] mdb-export producing bad results on one particular table

[Max B. <max...@gm...>]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:21:36 -0400, David Mansfield
<mdb...@dm...> wrote:
> What version of the s/w are you using?

0.6pre1, on a JET3 database.


> On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 16:13, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > I've been testing mdb-export on a database of ours - it's producing
> > rather odd dumps from one table - that is, some rows are missing, and
> > some columns dump as being entirely blank, or in the wrong order. One
> > thing possibly of note is that the columns in this table have been
> > reorganized quite a lot.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the db in question contains data I wouldn't be able to
> > get permission to release, and when I attempted to prune the data to a
> > small subset, I found that the problem 'solved' itself when I ran
> > "Compact Database".
> >
> > Is there any debugging that can I can do here, or does my inability to
> > provide a copy of the database make it infeasibly difficult?
> >
> > Whatever happens, "Compact Database" seems to be an effective workaround.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Max.