Comments on: Sharepoint 2003 and 2007 Database Exporter

By: omri

omri — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:51:11 +0000

hey, thanks alot for your quick respones
well, thanks alot for this tool anyway
we’ll try to figure how to access this crashed DB with microsoft..

By: Pascal

Pascal — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:22:42 +0000

Hi,

This tool has been tested on Sharepoint 2003 and 2007 databases. I never tested it on a Sharepoint 2010, although I had some report that it was working in the early days of this version. The error tells me that a table name in the database has probably changed or your not connecting to the right database. I am no more involved in Sharepoint Development and do not have a Sharepoint environment handy. That would require a lot of time for me to verify and test.

Pascal.

By: Pascal

Pascal — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:13:51 +0000

Hi, I never tested it on Sharepoint 2010. I had some feed back that it was working. SQL Server 2008 should not be a problem.

By: omri

omri — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:34:51 +0000

hey,
i’m trying this tool on sharepoint 2010 foundation
and i’m getting the following error

please assist asap if possible, our server is gone

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System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Invalid object name ‘DocStreams’.

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection)

at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj)

at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.ConsumeMetaData()

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.get_MetaData()

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.FinishExecuteReader(SqlDataReader ds, RunBehavior runBehavior, String resetOptionsString)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReaderTds(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, Boolean async)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method, DbAsyncResult result)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior, String method)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteDbDataReader(CommandBehavior behavior)

at System.Data.Common.DbCommand.System.Data.IDbCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior)

at System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.FillInternal(DataSet dataset, DataTable[] datatables, Int32 startRecord, Int32 maxRecords, String srcTable, IDbCommand command, CommandBehavior behavior)

at System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.Fill(DataSet dataSet, Int32 startRecord, Int32 maxRecords, String srcTable, IDbCommand command, CommandBehavior behavior)

at System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.Fill(DataSet dataSet, String srcTable)

at Sharepoint.DBExporter.Data.DatabaseConnector.ExecuteDataSet(String statement, String tableName)

at Sharepoint.DBExporter.SP.SPDatabase2007.GetListItemAttachmentsList(SPListDefinition list, Int32 itemID, Boolean includeContent)

at Sharepoint.DBExporter.Export.ExportManager.Start(ISPDatabase sharepointDatabase, SPListDefinition list, IProgressNotifier notifier)

at Sharepoint.DBExporter.UI.ExplorerForm._ExportButton_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
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OK
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By: Bruno Goncalves

Bruno Goncalves — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:10:52 +0000

Hello Pascal,

I’m new to sharepoint and I have to export some documents and corresponding metadata(preferably in XML format) from some sharepoint libraries.

Your tool seems perfect for the job, I just have one question:
will it work on sharepoint 2010 and sql server 2008?

thanks in advance.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:28:09 +0000

Thank you for this tool!! After 20 hours of work trying to attach an old content database to a new site with NO luck I ran across this. Documents exported and uploaded to new site in less than an hour.

Jon

By: Dave Bergsma

Dave Bergsma — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:21:37 +0000

Hi Pascal,

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I’ll stop now. Can’t thank you enough. Excellent tool.

Best regards,
Dave

By: Walter Castillo

Walter Castillo — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:47:22 +0000

Hi, could be possible extract a site template from a content database with this tool?

Thanks
WCC

By: Zeynep

Zeynep — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:02:11 +0000

Hi Pascal,

Thank you for your tool.

I used this tool and export all of documents these are in a SPS 2003 document library.

Now I need table names and field names which have user name info “who delete files”.

And can I find a deleted file using this tool in SPS 2003 document library?

Can you help me?

Thank you very much.

By: Faye

Faye — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:03:39 +0000

Hi Pascal,
thanks for the answer.
bad luck for me

Bye
Faye

By: Pascal

Pascal — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:27:52 +0000

No, this tool is meant to connect to a sql server database, it won’t help with your backup file.

Sorry
Pascal

By: Faye

Faye — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:17:44 +0000

Hi,
I write from Switzerland.
I find this site because I have problem with a sharepoint backup. This backup is a stsadm backup.
I have many problems to recover this backup to sharepoint.
This tool can help my to explore my backup file .dat?
Can anyone help me whit the procedure (steps)?

Many Thanks
Faye

By: Pascal

Pascal — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:21:03 +0000

hi!

thanks. What are the modifications? are you interested to share them?

Pascal

By: Ramu

Ramu — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:19:19 +0000

Hi pascal,
The tool is working fine in moss/wss database. you are rock. I should refer this in my blog as well Frind.

I have changed some modification which support sharepoint 2010 database document library only.

Thanks
Ramu

By: Olivier

Olivier — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:19:31 +0000

Hi there.
Thanks for this great tool.
What is missing is the possibility to order the columns and the treeview. If you could add clickable column header to reorder would be just great! I presume for now it goes by ID…but just a guess.
Appart from that, really great tool. Thanks for sharing it with the comunity.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:59:43 +0000

Thank you very much for allowing use of this tool. It exported all the files out of a version 2.0 Sharepoint quickly, saving tons of work and/or much expense.

Best Regards,
Mark

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:32:44 +0000

Ey thnx for this tool.

only now i would like a function export all.

can that be done?

kind regards.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 07:42:30 +0000

Thanks a lot! This helps me solved my 3 days of headache. I was unable to restore SharePoint site after DC migration.

Great job!

By: Jim Davis

Jim Davis — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:44:01 +0000

Outstanding – you’re a genius! Thank you!!!!!

By: Chris Dill

Chris Dill — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:19:56 +0000

I am sure you could reverse this program if you knew what you were doing, although format and metadata might be tough. I would advise working directly with database only when necessary, such as in a disaster recover situation. Databases generally don’t like to be manhandled.

More at http://chrisdill.wordpress.com