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[Vaielab]

Hello,

One of my client have a big competitor who's using borland database to store his client info.
Every client has their database in local on a server somewhere in their enterprise.

We are currently in negociation to win one of their client, but they don't want to retype every info they had for the past last 10years.
So I wanted to know, if it's possible with physical access to the server (and the client authorisation) to reset the root password of the borland database to gain access to the data, and make a script to transfer everything to our system.
The data is the client personnal data, so I don't think their a law issue there, but I still gonna read their contract with care.

In a nutshell my question is in 3 part
1) can we reset a borland database root access (or at least access the data without it, like with mysql when we load it without privileges)
2) if their is nothing in the contract, do you see anything against the law in this (once again, the data is the client personnal data)
and 3) I tried to look for a way to access a borland database with something other than a borland language (borland delpho, borland c++...) but didn't find any, do you know a connector for php (or pdo), c++, c#, or java?

Thank you

[WingedPanther]

The database is probably interbase, which is upwards compatible with the Firebird database engine. It has an ODBC driver available, as well as being able to use Java (there's a JDBC driver for it), and several other options.