FreeTDS Development Group

["Castellano, Nicholas" <Nicholas_Castellano AT acml.com>]

Believe it or not, this behavior is well-defined, and is documented.

http://manuals.sybase.com/onlinebooks/group-as/asg1250e/refman/@Generic__Boo
kTextView/4079;pt=4002/*#X

-----Original Message-----
From: bounce-freetds-145195 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
[mailto:bounce-freetds-145195 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu] 
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 1:06 PM
To: TDS Development Group
Subject: [freetds] RE: conversion status

[...]
MS documentation says binary & image store "a string of bits".  I know what
that means in theory, but not in (their) practice.  

1> create table #i(i varbinary(20))
2> insert #i values ( 0x100 )
3> insert #i values ( 0x11223344 )
4> select * from #i
5> go
 i
 ------------------------------------------
 0x01
 0x11223344

1> select cast(i as int)  from #i
2> go

 -----------
           1
   287454020

$printf "%x\n" 287454020
11223344

I don't know about you, maestro, but where I come from I'll trade you 1 for
0x100 any day of the week.  I would have expected the first row to be 256.  


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