3343 error - Unrecognised database format.

**slay0r** · 07-20-2011, 04:57 AM

Hi Guys,

One of the bosses here at my work has gone away and left some databases in my care, unfortunately during an update one of them has fallen over and it happens to be the one I know absolutely nothing about!

Below is the code that's fallen over, I don't know if you'll be able to do anything with it but I'd greatly appreciate it if someone could take a look!

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Any help would be greatly appreciated. Bit in bold is where it's fallen over. Cross posted on:

http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/showthr...26#post2796226

http://http://www.ozgrid.com/forum/s...211#post566211

**romperstomper** · 07-20-2011, 06:24 AM

I've updated your title to something more meaningful (based on extra info you posted at MrE and added code tags for you. Please learn to do both in future and please make sure you add links to ALL your crossposts.

**slay0r** · 07-20-2011, 07:19 AM

Sorry mate, was trying to add all my crossposts but I couldn't access this site, keeps timing out on me randomly, might be the company connection it is a bit shocking at times!

Sorry about the code format, will learn to do that every time in future, learning curve of using forums!
To anyone that's looking at this:

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I've tried compressing and repairing the database and I've tried rolling it back to yesterday at 11am - We keep 24 hour backups. This hasn't corrected the error so I'm quite stumped from my side!

People could run this database at 14:30 and I've restored the backup from 11.01 in the morning so I don't understand why this isn't working still. Again, any help is much appreciated as always!

**davegugg** · 07-20-2011, 11:06 AM

Which line is highlighted when you get your error?

**slay0r** · 07-21-2011, 04:13 AM

Thanks for the reply,

It's the line in bold that is highlighted when you hit debug.

I'm currently trying to roll back the database by contacting our external backup company who take backups of our system every 30 minutes. Hopefully this will resolve the issue that we're receiving but any help you can think of would be much appreciated!

Just had a thought. If the database is corrupted then this error would come up if someone was using a shortcut wouldn't it? When I've opened it directly I get an error with the autoexec that the guy before me wrote. Unfortunately it won't let me access it to have a look! Stumped!

**davegugg** · 07-21-2011, 10:25 AM

It looks to me like this line is bold:

xyz = DMax("[date]", "[dateupdated]")

Is that right? Did you check the help on this function to understand what it should be doing? Do you have a field named 'date' in a table named 'dateupdated'? Is the table empty?