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Data dissapears, but only part of a record? Corruption? Or craziness

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keun

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Jul 15, 2005
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I have a subform that collects a variety of data. For example, Bidder, Bid, and Date.

We had coders go in and code the Bidder and Bid on a first pass.

When then had a second pass entering the Dates.

Now - only one person is performing the second pass. She is telling me that Dates are disappearing. She says that she entered dates for a big block of data and that the dates are gone.

My initial thought is that the sub-form is hoooking up to the wrong record in the table, but the date data is nowhere in the table.

Also - the Bidder and Bid data is just fine, so the record itself is still proper, it's just that data is supposedly gone.


I have compacted and repaired, and the DB went from 18mb to 4mb. Question: can this sort of "disappearing" be caused by database corruption? I have never seen it before.

Other thoughts?
 
Is it possible that a return character has been entered or are the date fields Null?
 
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