Incorrectly extracted files in Access OLE Export/SQL Blob Export

Access OLE Export / SQL Blob Export may sometimes extract items that appear to be wrong.  For e.g. it might extract an expected PDF file as an image file.  To troubleshoot such issues, we need your help in sending us the data exactly as stored in your database to us for further investigation.

One way to extract the data is to use SQL Image Viewer.  Once installed, connect to the same database you were trying to extract your items from, and run your query to select the wrongly extracted item(s).

Select the item you’re having problems with, right click to bring up the context menu, and select the View as hex option.

SQL Image Viewer will display the selected item in a hex viewer.  Click on the Save button to save the raw data to a file.

and send us that file at support@yohz.com.  Having the raw data to work with will help us immensely to determine why Access OLE Export / SQL Blob Export appears to be extracting your files wrongly.

 

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