cannot establish d.b. connection

[satyaraj]

Hello Everyone,
my problem is that I've a database whose format is quite unknown to me i.e. "Database In SQL Windows" format. which has an extention of ".dbs". I'm not able to connect to this database thru any of the option available in VB6.0.
Does anyone of you have any idea on what drivers to use for this kind of a databse ?
Or is there any other way to access this database.
please help me out.
thanks for giving me time.
regards
satyaraj

[Chuck Sweet]

have you looked at the file under notepad to see if it was just a text file? a lot of old-school databases were put together that way and the extension dbs was only used to indicate it as part of a database.

if it's not just text, you might be in for a bumpy ride. i just got finished (maybe a year ago) writing a parser for a really old school pascal created database file to migrate it over to VB. i hope you're good at codebreaking, because that's all it really is.

if it's a newer format, i don't know anyone who knows anything about it. have you done just a web search? that might be your best bet.
-chuck