Hello Scott! I think you can try OracleODU: http://www.oracleodu.com/en/ or ask oracle support about Oracle's Data Unloader (DUL) On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Scott Canaan <srcdco@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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@xxxxxxx) > > (585) 475-7886 - work (585) 339-8659 - cell > > "Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put into > it." - Tom Lehrer > > > -- Best regards, Sayan Malakshinov Senior performance tuning engineer PSBank http://orasql.org