Anyone adventurous enough to help me with this problem? Even a yes/no to the question whether it's possible and maybe some pointers how to reconstruct page 0 would be a lot of help I think.
Well, anything's possible, since it's open source software and so you can change it and make it do what you need. However, this doesn't sound like a very easy thing to do. You've definitely exhausted all possible sources of backups?
Here's some fairly high-level information about page formats: http://db.apache.org/derby/papers/pageformats.html My first thought would be that if you could make page 0 appear to look as though ALL other pages in the conglomerate were "in-use", so that it seemed to have no pages marked "available", then you could try opening the database and reading all the data out. So you'd like the FreePages bitmap to be empty, for this recovery scenario. thanks, bryan
