RE: Difficult / Impossible Request

where you'll notice a frequent contributor to this list as a contact for the US.  

I'd suggest you contact them and see what they think they can do with your single .dbf file. Doing some up front detective work if perhaps they have a metadata listing of what they think is in that datafile might be helpful, but they are a better source of what information they will find useful than I am.  

Good luck,  

Mark  

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Scott Canaan
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:13 PM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Difficult / Impossible Request  

We have been given a .dbf file by a sys admin that says that he needs us to be able to recover the data that's in the file. Apparently, there was a problem with the original system that the database was on and he could only save the one .dbf file. All he knows about it is that it was Oracle 9i, not even which release of 9i. He does not have the system tablespace, only the application data tablespace, assuming that the .dbf file contains all of that. I'm not even sure what O/S it was, other than a flavor of Windows.

We have not been able to come up with a way to read this .dbf file. Does anyone have any idea of how to get this data into a database or a way to get the raw data out of the file?  

Thank you,  

Scott Canaan '88 (srcdco_at_rit.edu)

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