.gdbtable and .sda

[Former Member]

Can anybody tell me the structure of the gdbtable-files? I can guess it of course, but it would be nice to have some documentation.

I should also know how to package a .sda-archive so that it will be deployable with the sdm-process.

My goal is, to create OpenSQL Tables propgrammatically and not with the Developer Studio.

Thanks for any help

-claude

[former_member441228 · Accepted solution]

I don't think it's a released format; and I know that it has changed over time. Please consider it as the internal information exchange format between the dictionary explorer, the JDDSCHEMA deployment, and the java dictionary implementation.

Although the human-readable files seem to suggest some easy parsing, the fact that the format is published almost guarantee that you're code will run into problems whenever the 3 components mentioned above have to change something.

best regards,

helmut