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Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 05/22/06 01:15
Zenek (zingiel@op.pl) writes:
> because I have my small program for several database's operations and I
> want fast to view, fast to know versions of backups (to read value of
> one field), I want not to use server or some libraries, I want to use
> f.e. in C fopen function and by fseek to get to needed information.
No, you don't want to that. The backup format is to my knowledge not
publicly documented.
If the databases are as small as you have indicated, there is little
loss in execution time in actually restoring the databases and reading
the value in the regular way.
And you did not really answer my question. That is, there must be some
real-world problem you are trying to solve. What does this value you want
to read represent?
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
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