Showing posts with label sql25k. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sql25k. Show all posts

Friday, March 30, 2012

How to translate varchar into varbinary?

Hi everyone,

We're trying to migrate a varchar field from Sql2k to varbinary in a sql25k through a dtsx package. We get an error which tell us: "data will be lost".

Does anyone have any idea about that?

Thanks for your time and inputs,

Do it in the extract query, T-SQL supports explicit casts between those two types

DECLARE @.v varchar(10)

SET @.v = '0123456789'

SELECT CAST(@.v AS varbinary(10))