Recent content by pdanes

Cool, thanks. Got it installed, not quite sure what to do with it now. It seems to be running as a service on my machine, but I don't know how to communicate with it. Tried SSMS, but no luck. I'm too tired to think straight, so I'll continue tomorrow.

Okay, I finally got Full Convert to install and run, but it does not seem to have any provision for reading a .DBS file. Most options lead to a page where it wants to connect to a server, and the few that don't haven't been able to get anywhere. Two choices (dBase, FoxPro and SQLLite) let me...

Haven't asked, I'll try in the morning, but the person who contacted me was pretty vague about the whole thing.

Trying that, but no luck with it so far. All it says is 'Please download the trial again and reinstall.' Three times, same result.

Gupta was mentioned as one of the possible architectures by the owner. I'm looking at their website, but see nothing like a file convertor. I can try writing them. What I will do with it depends largely on what I find inside. If it's simple, I suppose just a flat file export. If it's more...

I suppose, although the raw file is rather inaccessible to mere mortals. I work with SQL Server as a data source for Access, and I know of nothing that would just read data from the .mdf files that SQL Server works with. Maybe there is something - I just have never sen anything like that. I've...

Yeah, I know. That's what I'm trying to do, and is the reason for this entire thread. I thought maybe your customer is migrating his data, and if so, you might know what he is using.

I have no idea about that, but I wouldn't be surprised - they did a lot of things like that. Do you know what you customer is using for his migration project?

That language part is correct. I am working in Prague, and the owner is a local person. But the Oracle bit seems off to me. Nobody involved in this is likely to have used such a sledgehammer, or even been able to afford it, especially as far back as this is claimed to have originated. But if...

Just tried it - no luck. It opens the file once, but displays mostly hash. A few things are in clear text, like the SYS stuff, but very little. When I close it and try opening it again, hoping to try a different encoding, it whines that the file is too big for Razor to open - the same file that...

Here you go: https://we.tl/t-yuLN7V5HuI

Sadly, I know nothing at all about it. The owner just asked if I could open it, since I had done something similar for a friend of his, but he didn't tell me anything about what is supposed to be in it. I didn't ask, either. If I can open it, I'll see what's inside. If not, knowing what should...

I got it already unzipped. I've zipped it to send to a guy who volunteered to look at it. Hadn't considered Informix, but I just now found something called RazorSQL, which promises to be able to open such stuff. We'll see. File properties unfortunately say nothing. I got it via a file transfer...

Ah, yes - fond memories of DEC gear. Second machine I worked on - a PDP 11/70. Pretty hot machine for its time. The first was a Univac 9300. I've looked at the SAP site, hoping to find a convertor, but no luck. I can try writing them. Worst case, they'll tell me to go fly a kite.

This is not strictly about Access, but there are some very smart and experienced people here, so I'm going to take a shot. Someone gave me an old database file, with a .DBS extension. Supposedly created either with something called Gupta SQLBase, or SyBase. I've been looking all over for...