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No Sorry. SQL Server backups use Microsoft Tape Format. The best option is to use DTS to copy the data from Sybase to SQL Server. If you don't have a direct network connection between the two use BCP to export to flat file and then to import into SQL Server.
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This was first published in April 2003

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