I want to open an .bak file that was created with SQL Server. There is some method to open that database with any other program?
Thanks.
I suppose that you are a Windows user, then, you can use Notepad to browse the database if you just need to check some records.
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I have a plesk account and an MS SQL database from which I got a dump through this interface they provide:
So I downloaded the dump file but it does not come as a .txt file but it comes without any extension and when I try to import it in my local MS SQL Server it fails always.
And when I try to open the dump file with notepad it shows weird characters(see picture below).
What am I doing wrong?
I got it to work by extracting the dump file from the zip and renaming it with a .bak extension. Then did a Database restore in MS SQL Management Studio and selected this backup file (.bak). Hope that helps.
I finally found my way using a php script found on github I had to fork it to update couple things cause it became obsolete.
I had to go this way for couple reasons:
I didn't have admin access to the plesk server to enable remote DB access
I wasn't able to export it into any format readable by mysql
So with the php script i could load it unto the server and run it,
The script copies an MSSQL into MySQL. Here is my fork.
The question is easy: is there a commant to backup an entire SqlServer database to a .sql file?
I developed a web application and now I need a button that permits to download a .sql file with all the data on the server.
Thanks a lot!
Please help me in opening files with .mkd extension. I have tried to install ftp server and sql server but I'm not able to open it. I have tried to convert it into csv file so that I can import to phpmyadmin. Please help me in getting this?
MKD file is a Pervasive SQL Database.You need a Pervasive SQL engine to open .mkd file.
Pervasive SQL Database
If I put my MS SQL Log file on another drive and the drive crashes.
What happens to my MS SQL Database, will it create a new log file or how do I correct it?
you need to recover/repair the database, see here: Recover a database without the ldf file
Is it possible to access the queries and procedures in a file created by SQL Server without installing SQL Server? Problem is that I am having problems to install the SQL server / Express version.
When all else fails - always try to open files in notepad and see what happens.
In this case, .sql files definitely can be opened with notepad - they are just text files. The extension is just there to give you the ability to double-click on them and by default open in Management Studio (or whatever you want to use to edit SQL files).