Binary Stored as String

Hi,
I am storing Binary Data into Varchar(Max) field, while migrating to another binary field, since it is stored earlier in the table with the varchar and then insert into Binary will again convert the string into Binary data. which is corrupting data.
How to Insert Varchar(max) field to Binary Field in another table
Thanks, Parth

Hi Parth,
Regarding your description, the binary data is stored in a varchar(max) column, do you mean the values of the varchar(max) column are like ‘0x5445535420535452494E47’? So when you tried to migrate it to a binary field, the string ‘0x5445535420535452494E47’
was converted into binary other than the value the string stands for?
If my understanding is correct, you may reference the code as below, just use the built-in
COVERT with one more optional parameter, you can read more details under
Binary Styles in the covert page.
DECLARE @srcTbl TABLE(str1 VARCHAR(MAX))
DECLARE @tarTbl TABLE(str1 VARBINARY(MAX))
INSERT INTO @srcTbl SELECT '0x5445535420535452494E47'
INSERT INTO @tarTbl SELECT CONVERT(VARBINARY(MAX),str1,1) FROM @srcTbl -- 1 here is necessary
SELECT str1 FROM @srcTbl
SELECT str1 FROM @tarTbl
If you have any question, feel free to let me know.
Best regards,
Eric Zhang
TechNet Community Support

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