deepdive Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 I have a scuba diving Program that is really designed badly. It will let me export a singel dive at a time. What I wouls like to do is rewrite the program for the way I would like to use it. How can I find out how to open up the database in a usable program like SQL server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 i think you are confused. The database is inside the sql server, you arite something to talk to the sql server. The language you use to do this all depends on what languages you know, perl and php would probly be the easyest languages to do this in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Let's start with the basics: - What is this program? Custom built stuff? Any chance of getting the old code? - What is it using for storage? Flat files, a poorly designed DB (*cough*Access*cough*) or maybe something else? - What are you comfortable with developing in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepdive Posted September 6, 2006 Author Share Posted September 6, 2006 The software can be downloaded from here: http://www.oceanicworldwide.com/services_software.html it is called OceanLog for ATOM Version 1.0.4. I have tried to open it up in Access with no luck, maybe I am doing something wrong. the file extention for the actual db is DLG which i believe stands for DiveLog. I am confortable procramming in C, C++, and .net. Although I would like to program it in .net to make it web compatiable. I have tried to contact Oceanic for some help but no responce. Thanks in advance for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wetelectric Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Im still a bit lost here. What you need to do is sit down and lay your problem out properly. Is the file your downloading data that is accessd via a program provided by Oceanic worldwide? If it is then all u have to do it is open it and check out the file structure. Flat files can also be accessed via odbc (wierd huh?) Sage (accounting software) does this. So if that is so, run a query against it...er... mm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jool Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 From what I've read I get the impression that it takes information from a dive computer and saves it in a proprietary file format via an application that he doesn't like. Unless the file format is something that's easy to decode, like xml or something similar, you probaly won't be able to get anything out of it. And getting the data directly from the device and bypassing the program completely probably isn't easy either. So unless it got some kind of exporting feature or you like decoding binary file formats or proprietary data connections you're probably out of luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Myeah. Maybe you can put that DLG file up somewhere? Donno if you consider the data in there sensitive or not... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepdive Posted September 6, 2006 Author Share Posted September 6, 2006 Ok, so i was able to rmb and tell the db file to open with Access, which talking to Oceanic is what they used to design the DB. Now I am stuck with a prompt asking me for a password. Does anyone have a psw generator? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Something like this one? http://www.itlocation.com/en/software/prd57789,,.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wetelectric Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 we have like three interpretations of the same problem yet poster has still not confirmed any of them ...meh i found it amusing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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