Introducing SharePoint Explorer

SharePoint Explorer is a tool intended for extraction of Microsoft SharePoint data from Microsoft SQL databases.

The source SQL database may be attached or not attached to a Microsoft SQL Server. You just need a consistent set of .mdf, .ldf, and (optionally) .ndf files, and a functioning Microsoft SharePoint farm.

If you back up SharePoint database servers, you can recover a database or mount the backup that contains the database, and then apply SharePoint Explorer to extract the necessary data. This approach does not require that you overwrite the production database and thus interfere with the production SharePoint farm functioning.

The extracted data can be imported to a SharePoint farm or saved to a folder on a file system.