Exporting tables from a SQL Server backup (.bak) to Parquet without restoring it

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FastBCP 1.6 exports a table from a SQL Server full backup to Parquet, with no restore and no SQL Server instance. FastBCP 1.6 reads a table straight out of a SQL Server full backup. The first backup run is the cold one, the first time this backup was opened.

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