How to tell the database type checking the file

Posted by Click Ok on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Click Ok
Published on 2010-05-07T06:42:07Z Indexed on 2010/05/07 6:48 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 311

Filed under:

database

|

reverse-engineering

|

metadata

My friend have a system to manage customers. The program per si is terrible, and my friend lost contact with the developers.

The case is, now my friend lost the access to program (something that the developers say "locked to machine" so when moved to another pc, he lost the access to program and data.

I get mission of to try to recover the database, migrating to another database, and create a cool program to my friend.

Now I need to discover wich database was used by the developers. I know that the program was made using Visual Basic, because the MSVBVM60.DLL is required.

There is some program to read the metadata in the .dat files and discover wich database was used?

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about database

SQL SERVER Retrieve and Explore Database Backup without Restoring Database Idera virtual database

as seen on Dot net Slackers - Search for 'Dot net Slackers'
I recently downloaded Ideras SQL virtual database, and tested it. There are a few things about this tool which caught my attention.My ScenarioIt is quite common in real life that sometimes observing or retrieving older data is necessary; however, it had changed as time passed by. The full database… >>> More
Cloning A Database On The Same Server Using Rman Duplicate From Active Database

as seen on Oracle Blogs - Search for 'Oracle Blogs'
To clone a database using Rman we used to require an existing Rman backup, on 11g we can clone databases using the "from active" database option. In this case we do not require an existing backup, the active datafiles will be used as the source for the clone. In order to clone with the source database… >>> More
cPickle ImportError: No module named multiarray

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hello, I'm using cPickle to save my Database into file. The code looks like that: def Save_DataBase(): import cPickle from scipy import * from numpy import * a=Results.VersionName #filename='D:/results/'+a[a.find('/')+1:-a.find('/')-2]+Results.AssType[:3]+str(random.randint(0,100))+Results.Distribution+"… >>> More
SQL SERVER – 2008 – Introduction to Snapshot Database – Restore From Snapshot

as seen on SQL Authority - Search for 'SQL Authority'
Snapshot database is one of the most interesting concepts that I have used at some places recently. Here is a quick definition of the subject from Book On Line: A Database Snapshot is a read-only, static view of a database (the source database). Multiple snapshots can exist on a source database and… >>> More
OTN ???? ?????? ???????

as seen on Oracle Blogs - Search for 'Oracle Blogs'
Database ?? Database ??????? Database ?????????? Java WebLogic Server/????????·???? SOA/BPM/????? ???????/???? ID??/?????? ?????EPM/BI EPM/BI ??????? EPM/BI ???? OS/??? ???? ????? MySQL Database ?? ???? ?? ????????? ??? ?? ORACLE MASTER… >>> More

Related posts about reverse-engineering

Reverse engineering and patching a DirectX game?

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Background I am playing Imperishable Night, one of the Touhou series of games. The shoot button is 'z', moving slower is 'shift', and the arrow keys move. Unfortunately for me, using shift-z ghosts my right arrow key, so I can't move to the right while shooting. This ghosting happens in all applications… >>> More
Reverse Engineering Custom Data File

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
At my place of work we have a legacy document management system that is now unsupported by the developers due to variours reasons, i have been asked to look into extracting the documents contained in this system to eventually be imported into a new 3rd party system. From various tracing and process… >>> More
Reverse engineering to get answers

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
So I've spent the last few days looking for a way to create a simple image drawing app with wxPython, and I think the key to doing just that is understanding how to use Device Contexts. The problem is that the wxPython demo program doesn't demonstrate DCs, and the docs for both wxPython and wxWidgets… >>> More
reverse engineering c programs

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
every c program is converted to machine code, if this binary is distributed. Since the instruction set of a computer is well known, is it possible to get back the C original program? >>> More
Reverse Engineering a Server Side Trace

as seen on SQL Server Central - Search for 'SQL Server Central'
How to reverse engineer or script a trace for disaster recovery, or simply scripting for enhance and adjustment. >>> More