[Tfug] Let's play "ID this code"! (serious issue actually)

[Choprboy]

On Monday 24 August 2009 11:01, Jim March wrote:
[snip]
> As to the code I showed you: that was just a tiny snippet of a bigger
> whole.  WAY bigger...literally thousands of lines of stuff.
> Unfortunately, the text editor had problems even copying stuff out
> because if any block of selected text had a "<null>" in it, the block
> wouldn't paste into anything else.  Sigh.
>

Well then.... if your just browsing the text fields to start, strip out the 
special characters. It should result in a *much* smaller file to peruse.

string <file> |less


As others said, it appears to be a SQL backup off some sort of MS product. My 
first thought was a SQL backup/dump of an Access database, or possibly dBase. 
Didn;t look quite right for a full MS SQL2K, but I havent parsed the details 
by hand before. The "backup" .bak is not a dump of SQL fields like you would 
get from  mysqldump. It is a set of SQL create commands, schemas, indexes, 
logs, and compressed data blobs (as opposed to SQL insert commands) to create 
a new DB from scratch on a MS SQL server product.


Adrian