Re: "a tool Microsoft uses to hide its source code from being copied"
Data is data. There's nothing magical about "data bases". Back in the day, we wrote our own more-advanced data structures using simpler elements provided by whatever language you might be using. It should be trivial to write a utility to convert a database into a text file and back again. This is Data Structures 101, very basic.
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