Our plant is upgrading from an EDNA historian.
The data files are stored in a format that we can not decode.
eDNA tech support is of no use.
All of my attempts to view the data have failed.
The file appears to be flat ASCII.
In hex-editor, I can see some recognizable strings.
If anyone here has experience with opening/converting eDNA dat files please let me know.
Thank you,
Ron
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Background: This is my day 1 of learning ETL. Had a little computer science training (not very systematically) before.
So I was learning this SSIS Tutorial on msdn (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170583.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396), one of the steps is to remap column data types from a flat file.
I never ran into this kind of data types (I mean those [DT_WSTR] thing) before. My question is how do I find the correct data type in Flat File Connection Manager Editor for my destination column? A complete list of reference of datatypes would be perfect. Thanks everyone!
It's actually a rather complex beast. Despite SO best practice of not linking to external resources, I'm going to disregard it here
http://www.cathrinewilhelmsen.net/2014/05/27/sql-server-ssis-and-biml-data-types/
http://milambda.blogspot.com/2014/02/sql-server-integration-services-data.html
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/dknight/2010/12/22/ssis-to-sql-server-data-type-translations/
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187752.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms141036.aspx
I have some database files I'd like to pull data from (and push to).
The first problem is that I don't know what format the database is in.
Each table (or object) seems to have a separate pair of files, such as ACCOUNT.FS5 and ACCOUNT.IDX. Some of them also have .SAV files.
A friend suggested that they are likely to be Flagship database files, presumably because of the FS5 extension. Edit: this is incorrect, they are not Flagship files, they are database files for the software 'EXACT'.
If this is the case, the second problem is that I don't know how I'd go about querying on these files. I have no schema per se, although the application is capable of exporting the data in csv format. Judging by the unfriendly nature of the csv, I'd imagine it to be pretty closely aligned to the database schema.
Any ideas?
If what you think is in these files, is not confidential, I would create the project on one of freelance sites, like "vWorker", and ask for a complete data extraction there.
You can as well specify the destination file format (say, .sqlite) you know how to deal with.
Hope it helped.
Regards
Is there any way to view the default database file shipped with FM release, e.g., like the file "basic_people_db.dat" in "<fmdir>\Football Manager 2012\data\db\1200".
I mean, either by converting it to a human-readable format like spreadsheet or load it to some database directly...
I highly doubt it.
If the DAT file is actually a generic "data" file, the program that
generated the DAT file is your best bet for opening it
I am developing a web application and I have a folder containing a bunch of files with .adm , .adi and .adt and .bak extensions.I want to be able to read this data and convert put it in mysql db.
I have figured that these are files stored by sybase in its proprietary format. I have opening with sybase advantage server but the folder does not have a .db file.
I am really trying hard to just read this data but am not able to. It'd be a great help if you can give me some direction.
On one very old server, i found the files, and i could open it with "Advantage Data Architect" software.
Maybe helps someone.
I know this is a really old post but some people (like me) might get here by Googling because they have an issue like mine. If you just open the file in notepad you MIGHT be able to read some of the data. My issue was with Medisoft version 17. A client of mine was transferring computers and we needed the registration code that is generated for the upgrade serial number. (It's in rgnpds.adt. look for the serial number and it should be the next "string" of characters). I just opened it up in notepad and the information that would normally be displayed to the user if they generated a report was readable in notepad. Hope this helps someone even if I am too late for the OP.
The better way to open the ADT file will be with Advantage Data Architect,
the other extensions are the index and memo files.
Thanks
I haven't used CiviCRM before and I was asked if I can install it on a Joomla-based web site. I also need to import about 3,000 records from 4 different MS Excel files. I'm hoping I can do this in 10-12 hours, but I haven't used CiviCRM before, and I'd like opinions from anyone who has experience with this. I know a precise figure isn't possible, but estimates or even rough figures are welcome.
You need to save Excel file in CSV format. Importing depends on amount of data you have in your csv file for each record. Feel free to ask more questions on http://forum.civicrm.org