RE: Difficult / Impossible Request
- From: "Mark W. Farnham" <mwf@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "'ORACLE-L'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:33:43 -0500
One available service can be found at http://www.ora600.be/
where you'll notice a frequent contributor to this list as a contact for the
US.
I'd suggest you contact them and see what they think they can do with your
single .dbf file. Doing some up front detective work if perhaps they have a
metadata listing of what they think is in that datafile might be helpful,
but they are a better source of what information they will find useful than
I am.
Good luck,
Mark
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Scott Canaan
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:13 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Difficult / Impossible Request
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
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