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This book teaches you how to systematically reverse engineer any database or binary storage format from scratch. Starting from the fundamentals of hexadecimal analysis and binary file structures, you will progress through page-oriented storage, B-tree indexes, write-ahead logging, multi-version concurrency control, crash recovery and advanced dynamic instrumentation techniques. Every concept is illustrated with complete, runnable code examples in C, Python, Rust and Go, using real-world database formats including SQLite, PostgreSQL, InnoDB, LevelDB and Redis as case studies. By the end, you will be able to take an unfamiliar binary database file, discover its structure through controlled experimentation, document its format and implement a compatible reader or analysis tool.

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