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Varbinary and nvarchar problem

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From	Shelly <sheldonlg@thevillages.net>
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Subject	Varbinary and nvarchar problem
Date	Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:00:26 -0400
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I have a table with a field that is nvarchar.  The input data is 
obtained from first doing a HASHBYTES(MD5, the_char_string). Call this 
the_data.

If I first do a CAST(the_data as NVARCHAR)  or if I do a 
CONVERT(NVARCHAR, the_data), then there is no problem with inserting the 
field.  However, when I do a select * via Sqlserver Manager, that field 
contains the string "??????".

If I do not first do the conversion, it insert the hash into the field, 
and succeeds for the first 15 of 1991 records.  It then bombs with 
"incorrect syntax near '<9e>V!Â¢(Q Ã+;<86>"^@LmÃ§'.

This process is interrogating a join of two tables and then is inserting 
a processing of the resulting data rows into another table.  It is on 
the insert (which is one condition of a merge statement) where the 
failure occurs.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can get the data into the third 
table and not have it all be "???????".

-- 
Shelly

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Varbinary and nvarchar problem Shelly <sheldonlg@thevillages.net> - 2014-06-19 15:00 -0400
  Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2014-06-19 23:06 +0200
    Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem Shelly <sheldonlg@thevillages.net> - 2014-06-19 17:49 -0400
      Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2014-06-20 16:16 +0200
        Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem Shelly <sheldonlg@thevillages.net> - 2014-06-21 09:17 -0400
        Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem Shelly <sheldonlg@thevillages.net> - 2014-06-23 09:49 -0400
          Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem Shelly <sheldonlg@thevillages.net> - 2014-06-23 10:27 -0400
            Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2014-06-23 21:33 +0200
              Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem Shelly <sheldonlg@thevillages.net> - 2014-06-23 16:35 -0400
                Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2014-06-24 07:19 +0000

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