[dba-SQLServer] File extensions

Wow, sent that 36 hours ago. Good job I sent the second copy. This one
obviously went via Mars.

-- Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk 

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> Of Andy Lacey
> Sent: 13 September 2004 20:30
> To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: [dba-SQLServer] File extensions
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> Hello good people on this wet and windy Autumn evening in the UK
> 
> Simple question from a simple soul. I keep a weather eye on 
> the SQL server list but never having actually developed a SQL 
> system my question is: if I go to look at a client's existing 
> system how can I tell if it is SQL (which I think it is)? 
> Would file suffixes tell me, or can a developer call a 
> database anything he/she likes? And if the file suffixes are 
> the answer what are the magic three letters? Going on from 
> there, if I was offered the opportunity to take the data away 
> to have a look at it can I just zip up a file or two, and if 
> so what would I need in order to be able to read the data in 
> Access when I got back home?
> 
> -- Andy Lacey
> http://www.minstersystems.co.uk 
> 
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