Can you read .fdb and .fbk file without using NAV

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Posted on by Robin Clark

I am trying to read the data in a .fdb and a .fbk file. These files were provided to me by a client. I do not have Microsoft NAV on any machines. I do have MS SQL server express loaded on my machine. I have tried to attach the .fdb and .fbk files in SQL server and they are not in the proper format. Ideally I would like to convert the data into an Excel file. I just want a readable dump of the data. Is there anyway to do this without having NAV?

Thank you.

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Rashed 3,765 on at

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The fdb, fbk are propriety/closed formats and you cannot open them directly.

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joemarselo 366 on at

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Robin, are you a NAV consultant? or independent consultant? are you engaged with Microsoft Partner company? if not, since you will dealing with NAV system, you need to team up with NAV consultant - whether independent or MS partner.

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Nilesh Shelar 2,130 on at

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Hi,

1) You can't directly read .fdb & .fbk from there than Navision.

2) For dumping data to excel you have to create SQL database with help navision and then you can play with it.

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Hi,

I think you can!

But for that In your system NODBC or C Front must be installed, with the help of these you can create macros in excel to retrive the data from tables.

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Nilesh Shelar 2,130 on at

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Hi,

can you please explain me in detail, so i will also try.

Thank you.

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Hi,

Ya you can find help with this link: http://dynamicsuser.net/forums/p/25209/153373.aspx

and for this database server should required.

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