Re: Unknown database format
Date: 1997/01/06
Message-ID: <32d16849.1201017_at_news.pi.net>#1/1
Tony,
there are many databases that use .dat and .ix extension for their filenames, so this is very hard to find out. The .dat files will most likely be your tables, whereas de .ix files are indexes.
One of the databases I know of that's using both .dat and .ix files, is B-Tree filer. This is a library add-on for Turbo Pascal with which you can make your own database apps. You can easily find out if you have this type of database: simply open an .dat file in a spreadsheet like Excel 5.0 or in a text-editor. In B-Tree, every single line makes up one record. You have to find out the structure of the record yourself though, as B-Tree filer doesn't have field delimiters. In case of B-Tree Filer. the .ix files are index files of the B plus Tree type, which enables very fast index searching.
I don't know if there are any conversion utils. You might post a message in the Pascal newsgroup comp.lang.pascal.borland.
Pieter.
On Fri, 03 Jan 1997 18:52:09 +0100, Tony Sherman <dialogue_at_bart.nl> wrote:
>People,
>I have a number of databases which end in '.dat' and '.lx' and I would
>like to import them into MS-SQL 6.5, but I do not know what the format
>of the databases are.
>Questions:
>Does anyone know of a tool to help me out?
>Does anyone know of a technique to help identify their format?
>Is there a list of possible candidates I could try?
>Any help gratefully received.
>
>Tony Sherman BSc CNE.
Received on Mon Jan 06 1997 - 00:00:00 CET