Re: Difficult / Impossible Request

I think you can try OracleODU: http://www.oracleodu.com/en/ or ask oracle support about Oracle's Data Unloader (DUL)

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Scott Canaan <srcdco_at_rit.edu> wrote:

> 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?
>
>
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> Thank you,
>
>
>
> Scott Canaan '88 (srcdco_at_rit.edu)
>
> (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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