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[AtoZ]

Hello.

I was using a program that used database, but our actual programs gone haywire and we don't want to pay an extra $1000 USD for it again.........

The database we backed up is in .Dat format, whitch I assume is just a straight Binary IO write.

Is there anyway/program that I can use to recover the internal data? visual studio just gives insuffcient memory :(

Theres defently some SQL in the file thats in readable English, but the rest just looks like When you write data to file from C++.

Thanks!

[Alexander]

Think, if it were backed up in a .dat format, It would mean there is a just as simple method to restore it from a .dat format. This is why you can back up things in the first place. From what I can dig, it doesn't require more than a few queries. Regardless, why not look at Microsofts help pages about this?

[Link: http://msdn.microsof...y/ms187048.aspx ]

[WingedPanther]

What type of database was it? Every type of database has its own backup format.

[AtoZ]

It's a customer managment program.

The legable code in the files, is SQL

[WingedPanther]

I don't think you understand: is it a Dbase database, a SQL Server database, an Oracle database, a Firebird database, a MySQL database, a ...?

[AtoZ]

I'm not sure, I think it's Oracle

[WingedPanther]

Oracle database files generally end in .ORA.

[TkTech]

AtoZ, can you use a hex editor (like XVI32) and post the first 512 bytes of the file to pastebin?