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Converting from hex string to varbinary and vice versa

Posted by Simon Cho on 01/31/2012

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqltips/archive/2008/07/02/converting-from-hex-string-to-varbinary-and-vice-versa.aspx

SQL2005

-- Convert hexstring value in a variable to varbinary:
declare @hexstring varchar(max);
set @hexstring = 'abcedf012439';
select cast('' as xml).value('xs:hexBinary( substring(sql:variable("@hexstring"), sql:column("t.pos")) )', 'varbinary(max)')
from (select case substring(@hexstring, 1, 2) when '0x' then 3 else 0 end) as t(pos)
go

-- Convert binary value in a variable to hexstring:
declare @hexbin varbinary(max);
set @hexbin = 0xabcedf012439;
select '0x' + cast('' as xml).value('xs:hexBinary(sql:variable("@hexbin") )', 'varchar(max)');
go

SQL2008

declare @hexstring varchar(max);
set @hexstring = '0xabcedf012439';
select CONVERT(varbinary(max), @hexstring, 1);
set @hexstring = 'abcedf012439';
select CONVERT(varbinary(max), @hexstring, 2);
go

declare @hexbin varbinary(max);
set @hexbin = 0xabcedf012439;
select CONVERT(varchar(max), @hexbin, 1), CONVERT(varchar(max), @hexbin, 2);
go

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LSN Convert

Posted by Simon Cho on 01/29/2012

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/886839

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.fn_convertnumericlsntobinary(
@numericlsn numeric(25,0)
) returns binary(10)
AS
BEGIN
-- Declare components to be one step larger than the intended type
-- to avoid sign overflow problems. For example, convert(smallint, convert(numeric(25,0),65535)) will fail but convert(binary(2),
-- convert(int,convert(numeric(25,0),65535))) will give the
-- intended result of 0xffff.
declare @high4bytelsncomponent bigint,
@mid4bytelsncomponent bigint,
@low2bytelsncomponent int
select @high4bytelsncomponent = convert(bigint, floor(@numericlsn / 1000000000000000))
select @numericlsn = @numericlsn - convert(numeric(25,0), @high4bytelsncomponent) * 1000000000000000
select @mid4bytelsncomponent = convert(bigint,floor(@numericlsn / 100000))
select @numericlsn = @numericlsn - convert(numeric(25,0), @mid4bytelsncomponent) * 100000
select @low2bytelsncomponent = convert(int, @numericlsn)
return convert(binary(4), @high4bytelsncomponent) +
convert(binary(4), @mid4bytelsncomponent) +
convert(binary(2), @low2bytelsncomponent)
END

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fn_dump_dblog

Posted by Simon Cho on 01/28/2012

SELECT top 100 *
FROM fn_dump_dblog
(
DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT,
'c:\backup\aaaa_backup.trn',
DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT,
DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT,
DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT,
DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT,
DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT,
DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT,
DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT
)
where operation = 'LOP_DELETE_ROWS'

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