About Me

My name is Pascal Gill, I am an assistant director for software development working at Gesca Numérique located in Québec, Canada.  With its subsidiaries, the company is responsible of operating large publishing websites like www.cyberpresse.ca.

My interests go to anything related to technologies.  I have been a software developer for many years (12+) using many languages from Visual Basic 4 (16 bits) to C#.NET, and some platforms like Sharepoint Portal Server 2003. 

So far much of my background is based on Microsoft Technologies but I didn’t stick to it.  DotNET made me discover Mono which drove me in the open source world of Linux and I ended-up doing software development in different languages/environments like PHP, Apache, Linux, etc.

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9 comments

9 Comments so far

  1. Gilles February 16th, 2009 10:23 am

    Hi,
    thanks a lot for your tool !
    It just helped me a lot with a failed MOSS2007 server.
    Of course the restore documentation where partially hosted on it !!
    regards,
    Gilles

  2. Vinny February 18th, 2009 2:11 pm

    I would like to thank you for “Sharepoint 2003 and 2007 Database Exporter”. Our sharepoint server died in a bad way and couldn’t get it to run again so I had to setup the site from scratch. The worst thing was the data, it was all gone. Well, until I came across your work that is. Saved me from total failure. Thanks man.

  3. Jon May 14th, 2009 1:13 pm

    I need some information on using your SharePoint database explorer
    When exporting to a folder for instance I am not seeing my documents? Might be a process issue on my end but I have no clue.
    I guess I need a general how to use type of doc if you have one

    Thanks for your time

  4. Robert February 20th, 2010 9:19 pm

    I would also like to thank you for “Sharepoint 2003 and 2007 Database Exporter”. My personal sharepoint database died w/a ton of my scanned documents. Tried all sorts of tricks and “solutions” online. None worked until I came across your site. Just wanted to say thanks and good work!

    -Robert

  5. Mark M March 31st, 2010 4:09 pm

    Pascal – Thanks for the SharePoint Database Exporter. An excellent tool and very much appreciated!

  6. Steve April 7th, 2010 9:10 am

    SharePoint Database Exporter absolutely saved me. THANK YOU!!!!

  7. Toros A June 14th, 2010 11:15 pm

    Your tool has helped me restore some of the most critical documents I store on my SharePoint server that recently suffered a registry corruption and could not be recovered.

    You are … THE MAN!!!!

  8. Zeynep June 22nd, 2011 6:33 am

    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”.

    Can you help me?

    Thank you very much.

  9. Pascal June 24th, 2011 4:30 pm

    Hi it’s pretty hard for me to help you because I do not have an SPS 2003 database available.

    I remember digging user information in database but never built a tool to extract this information.

    Pascal

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