Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Follow-up to: Problems with Unify
Message-ID: <350@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 88 04:59:55 GMT
References: <249@tsc3b21.UUCP> <50500005@upba>
Organization: V-Systems -- Santa Ana, CA
Lines: 20
Summary: getting into Unify databases

In article <50500005@upba>, cory@upba.UUCP writes:
> 	It is possible to get into unify.db by calling it file.db[r]
> 	and using SQL on it.  We had to do this a couple of times when
> 	we were first experimenting with the UNIFY users database and
> 	security.  (I accidentally locked myself completely out of the
> 	database a couple of times, and there was no way else back in)
> 
> 	Just be warned, this is DANGEROUS for your database.

To make this easier, copy SQL to another name, say USQL.  Then
run some kind of binary editor on it to change file.db[r] to
File.db[r] (note capital 'F').  Then link unify.db to File.db
and File.dbr and run USQL on the database.  The above warning
is relevant but possibly less dangerous than constantly changing
and relinking your database name from unify.db to file.db and
back again.  Do you think Unify Corp. approves of this? many :-)
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