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Re: Raw data

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From	Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>
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Subject	Re: Raw data
Date	Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:22:12 +0200
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NewtoOrcl (newtoorcl@yahoo.com) writes:
> I am trying to get the utl_raw.cast_from_number function to pass data to 
> a 3rd party application.  I am kind of confused as to how it gets 
> converted into a binary format.  Are these hexadecimal values?  Why do 
> the results vary so much in their length?
> 
> 
> 100     C202
> 200     C203
> 300     C204
> 400     C205
> 500     C206
> 1000     C20B
> 10000     C302
> 100000     C30B
> 1.2     C10215

I had never heard of this utl_raw.cast_from_number function before, so
I searched for it on Google. It appears that this is a function in Oracle,
so you are in the wrong newsgroup. I suggest that you try 
comp.databases.oracle instead.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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