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 Posted by Zenek on 05/21/06 01:27 
Erland Sommarskog napisa?(a): 
> Zenek (zingiel@op.pl) writes: 
>> I have: 
>> - server MS SQL MSDE (2000) 
>> - database 'COLLBASE' 
>> - table 'MAIN' 
>> - row: column 'NAME' value 'version' and column 'VALUE' value '003' 
>> 
>> I make backup files by SQL query. 
>> I have more backups for different versions of this database (different  
>> value in field 'VALUE' in table 'MAIN'). 
>> 
>> I would like to read this value from backup file without server assist,  
>> to get backup as ordinary file. 
>> How to do it? 
>> How to move in this file? 
>> What is physical structure of backup file? 
>> 
>> I can't to read this file from begin by compare strings, because these  
>> files are very large, few 100MB. 
>  
> What are you really trying to achieve? The normal way to read data from 
> a backup is to restore it into a database. And if the database is just a  
> mere couple of 100 MB, that's a fairly snap operation. 
>  
>  
of course, but I need to know this value before restore, without server  
assist. 
 
Regards, 
Zenek
 
  
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