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hang 5... I am reading you request too literally<br />
what they are suggesting is that they want you to restore that DUMP to a local sybase server and do your stuff from there
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hang 5... I am reading you request too literally
what they are suggesting is that they want you to restore that DUMP to a local sybase server and do your stuff from there

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ChrisKing, I think you got it right the first time.
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ChrisKing, I think you got it right the first time.

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leonstryker, that is just TOO SCARY to think that DBA would ask someone to decode a dump file &nbsp; :)
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leonstryker, that is just TOO SCARY to think that DBA would ask someone to decode a dump file   :)

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I agree, I think it may be a simple case of misunderstanding of what the DBA implied by a &quot;dump&quot;. :)
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I agree, I think it may be a simple case of misunderstanding of what the DBA implied by a "dump". :)

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My problem: I'm an ETL devloper and one of my new data sources is a Sybase database. &nbsp;I don't have a Sybase server and I can't get query access against the production server. &nbsp;The plan is to send a copy of the Sybase backup/dump file to me each night. &nbsp;<br />
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I'm not at all familiar with the backup/dump format (or for that matter Sybase). &nbsp;Will I be able to parse this file with Perl or some other tool to pull all of the data back or will the file only be valuable if I can first load it to a Sybase server and then extract what I need?<br />
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Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. <br />
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Thank you.<br />

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My problem: I'm an ETL devloper and one of my new data sources is a Sybase database.  I don't have a Sybase server and I can't get query access against the production server.  The plan is to send a copy of the Sybase backup/dump file to me each night.  

I'm not at all familiar with the backup/dump format (or for that matter Sybase).  Will I be able to parse this file with Perl or some other tool to pull all of the data back or will the file only be valuable if I can first load it to a Sybase server and then extract what I need?

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. 

Thank you.


Reading Sybase Dump File without Sybase

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