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Joao_Carlos_Miguel
Apr 18, 2024Copper Contributor
Recovering wordpad RTF content stored in ntext format
Hello, I have a large database which was created by a third party software on SQL server. I can access the content but when I try to read a specific column, the data, which is formatted for Wordpad,...
olafhelper
Apr 19, 2024Bronze Contributor
which is formatted for Wordpad, is stored in ntext.
Joao_Carlos_Miguel , WordPad is an application, not a file format. So which format is it, .DOC, .RTF or ...?
And keep in mind:
1. The data type NTEXT is deprecated since a long time, don't use it
2. The data type NTEXT stores text, not binaries like images. If it, then it is somehow encoded in a way we don't know. Contact the software vendor support/developer to get more informations.l