>>A couple of questions, to confirm my understanding.
>>
>>1. If I check the LEN() of the VARBINARY field, it returns the number of bytes, not the number of characters this value would be cast to. Correct?
>>Example:
>>
>>cTest = "1234567890"
>>bTest = cast( cTest as varbinary(250))
>>? len(bTest)
>>? bTest
>>
>It's still 10 bytes, i.e. 10 characters. It's just prefixed with 0h and then spelled out in hex, because it's treated as binary. So you got ten characters displayed as 20 hex digits plus two character prefix, i.e. 22. But it's still 10 long.
I understand. Thank you.
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