>Anyone know an easy (and free if possible) way to uudecode a string using tSQL? A nice clean T-SQL function maybe?
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>I'm working on extracting XML data stored on a db2 box, parsing it and storing on a SQL2008R2 box (for ease of use).
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>No problem until I hit one table that has a uuencoded string embedded in a field in the XML document.
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>I need to decode it.
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>I found a CLR library called SQLSharp that supposedly will do it, and is supposedly free. Problem is my client will probably not allow a third party library to be installed on their servers w/o the source code being available.

Can you post an example of a XML?

Also, I suggest to post this question in XML SQL Server forum in MSDN. There are two gurus there who most likely will be able to help.