I have inherited a program called Magic and is version 8.3. We would like to export the data but I am not sure how to do this. All the files are in .dat format and appears to need Btrieve. I did contact the Magic company and they say it would be over $5k to do. I can't believe there isn't an easier way but maybe this is true.
So above is something I found and can see when people are using the tool. I can't find anything to allow me to query or look at the data in a formatted way.
End goal is to get data out of this and put into a sql server.
Anyone have any ideas how I can export this?
The Magic environment used to have a method for creating the DDFs. I think it is called "DDF Make." Once you have the DDFs, you will still need a Btrieve / Pervasive / Actian engine to read the files. If you know the exact record structure, you might be able to create the DDFs (and table entries) manually through SQL or a DDF Builder tool.