To open a BAK file without SQL Server, you can locate the file manually & change its extension or restore and export it to Excel using SSMS using the abovementioned steps. Apart from the SQL server, ...

How to Open a Microsoft SQL Server .Bak File. You can save a backup of your MS SQL databases to a single file on your hard drive. These backup files have names ending with the ".bak" file ...

You open a PL/SQL file for three reasons: to add to or change the code, read the code or view what the code represents in its analog state.