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ovisopa
08-04-2003, 04:17 PM
Hello ppl,

I have a database file (.db) and it's about 500MB, it is a phonebook and I want to extrect the data from it but only the phones from my town.. the problem is I can't open it. I've tried with excel and I receive an error, I've tried with acces and i receive a databae driver error.. :(.. how can I open it??


10x in advance

see ya

PeOfEo
08-04-2003, 11:37 PM
Well that is not an access format let alone excel, access uses mdb excel uses xls (I think thats its format) I believe the format you are looking for is for DBase, but it could also be ibm's db2, I would look into those do a little reaserch