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

[Bexley Hall]

> > 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.

Yes, this is the preferred way of doing it in PostgreSQL.  It
offers a bit more portability (at least between *versions*)
than the much *denser* raw dump.

It's also a win because you *can* see what's in the database
even without having a DBMS running!


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