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I have been given a MS-SQL database to gleen some reports from. However on first inspection most of the data is stored in binary format. Is there a utility avalible that would allow me to peek at the data in the binary fields to give me some sort of idea as to it’s contents.
Here, I wrote one. It’s checked by our corporate antivirus, so it should be all safe. Besides, this is a .NET app, so it should be even safer.
Yes, .NET 2.0 is required.
Basic usage is as follows:
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What it does is basically exports binary data to files, so that you can examine them later.
Source code is as simple as it can possibly ever be.