IBFirstAID Ambulance

• Internal gds software consistency check (cannot find tip page (165)) The required Transaction Inventory Page is corrupt and the database cannot be opened. It is expected in this instance that neither gbak nor gfix will be able to repair your database (except in the case of a Read Only database). IBFirstAID will repair the missing pages and recover the database.



• Unknown database I/O error for file "*.gdb" Error while trying to read from the database file. This usually indicates that a number of database pages have probably been lost at the end of the database file (power failure?). In this instance the database cannot be opened. Gfix cannot repair this. IBFirstAID will recreate the missing system pages and deletes the wrong pointers.



• Database file appears corrupt. Wrong page type. Page NNN is of wrong type (expected X, found Y) This error can indicate a number of problems. But typically there are missing pages in the database, or the page that is being accessed is not the expected page type. For example, if the expected page type is 5, it can mean that some data may have been corrupted within a table. Such a corruption may prevent a sucessful backup backup or may make the table unavailable to the database. IBFirstAID fixes the wrong page pointers and repairs the database.



• Wrong record length. Cannot find backversion. IBFirstAID will check every record in database and will try and repair these record-level errors.



• Other database corruptions can be caused by lost pages.