Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your VW file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert VW to another file type
To convert your VW file to another format, you need Toad for Oracle or other Database software.
Convert a file to VW
To convert other file formats to the "View Definition Script" file type, you need software like Toad for Oracle or a similar tool.
About VW files
The .vw extension suffers from a significant filename collision, representing three completely different file types depending on the context.
Quest Toad View Definition (Most Common): Approximately 15% of these files are SQL scripts generated by Toad for Oracle, a popular database management tool. These files contain the CREATE VIEW SQL statements used to define virtual tables in an Oracle database. They are essentially plain text source code files that developers and DBAs use to version-control their database schemas.
Roland VersaWorks Job File: A close second (14%) is the job settings file used by Roland VersaWorks, a Raster Image Processor (RIP) software for wide-format printers. These files store critical print job data - including layout, nesting, scaling, color management settings, and media profiles - often formatted as XML. Users typically encounter these when archiving print jobs or transferring settings between workstations.
Volkswriter Document (Legacy): A small fraction (0.9%) are legacy text documents from Volkswriter, a word processor from the 1980s by Lifetree Software. These are binary-text hybrid files that modern word processors like Microsoft Word cannot open natively.
Conversion Recommendations:
For Toad/SQL: Since these are text-based, convert to SQL or TXT to edit in VS Code. Convert to PDF if you need to archive the schema documentation.
For VersaWorks: These are often XML-based. Convert or rename to XML to inspect print settings in a browser or text editor. They cannot be converted to an image format without the original source graphics.
For Volkswriter: Convert to TXT or DOCX to salvage the text content from these obsolete files.
Convert.Guru analyzes your VW file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted PRT, VWX, PKB, PLSQL, JDB3, PX and REM files.
FAQ
If you want to convert VW file to PX, REM, TXT, RTF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, PAGES, TEX, LATEX, MD or MARKDOWN, you can use Toad for Oracle or similar software from the "SQL View Definition" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert PDF, DOC, ASC, TODO, NFO, MEMO, README, DOCX, JPG, TXT, NOTE or RTF files to VW, try Toad for Oracle or another comparable tool in the "SQL View Definition" category.
The VW Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our VW converter.