Today, almost all the organizations whether they are small or large, use computers and thus they use different tools to manage the data related to their finance and accounting. One of the highly used financial management applications among small to medium sized organizations is QuickBooks. This application saves all the data related to finance and accounts in .QBW files. QuickBooks 2006 and later versions use a database engine, called ‘Anywhere’, which is developed by Sybase and is based on SQL database. However, there are times when this database engine fails due to corruption in the QuickBooks files. At this situation all our precious data saved on QuickBooks becomes inaccessible. To overcome such loss, all you need to do is to opt for reliable QuickBooks recovery solution.

Let us exemplify the above situation. Suppose, another day while trying to open your QuickBooks database, you encounter the following error message related to problem in Anywhere database:

"Adaptive server anywhere database engine has encountered a problem and needs to close"

To rectify this issue, we must first understand actual causes behind this problem.

Causes:

The above mentioned error in QuickBooks is encountered due to any of the following reasons:

- The QuickBooks file is damaged.
- The QuickBooks file is saved to a USB drive or flash drive and that drive was removed without closing QuickBooks file properly.
- The system on which QuickBooks is installed is infected by viruses.
- The QuickBooks program is not correctly installed.

Resolution:

Since, you encountered this issue while opening your QuickBooks, thus follow the below mentioned steps to overcome such situation:

- Scan your computer (in which QuickBooks is installed) with the powerful anti-virus software which has updated definitions for all the latest viruses. 
- Uninstall and reinstall the QuickBooks.

However, if none of the above mentioned solutions work to fix the issue then it is recommended to opt for third-party QuickBooks repair software. There are large number of software for repairing QuickBooks is available online and all you need to do is to choose most efficient tool for this category. One of the highly recommended and user friendly tool for this category is Stellar Phoenix Recovery for QuickBooks software.

This software recovers QuickBooks files irrespective to the cause of corruption or inaccessibility. The software supports recovery from QuickBooks Simple Start, Premier Pro, and Enterprise Solution Edition and is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server2003, XP, 2000, and NT.