After ignorantly changing the text in the TFS Work Item Tracking constants table (not the keys), basically our Team System no longer will alow for importing, exporting work items nor adding or deleting projects. The error message windows is as follows:

Assertion Failed: Abort=Quite, Retry=Debug, Ignore=Continue

Duplicate entries found in the meta data. There may be a duplicate live [Domain]\[Account] in the constants table. Contact Currituck Dev. at <Module>.CPSLookupMetadata<CPsLookupConstantMetaDatabyFullName,> and much more. I was wondering if anybody had experienced anything similar and how to identify the duplicate metadata.

I can't seem to find anything remotely resembling a duplicate. Are there any tools or suggestions on how to visually see what meta data is being returned and where can I find that function that is raising the error.

Thank you in advance.

GlenAtMotorola

My first inclination is simply to roll back to a recent backup. We neither support nor recommend direct SQL modification as it can cause irreparably broken databases. There are many invariants and set relationships we expect between the various databases, tables, and datarows, and if any of these are munged we may not be able to recover.

Cheers,
Adam