Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: NewtoOrcl Newsgroups: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver Subject: Raw data Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:28:54 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 15 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: vdU38SApSa2d84jI3o1xnw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:755 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