Converting a String to HEX in SQL

Question

I\'m looking for a way to transform a genuine string into it\'s hexadecimal value in SQL. I\'m looking something that is Informix-friendly but I would obviously prefer somet

Answer 1

what about:

declare @hexstring varchar(max);
set @hexstring = 'E0F0C0';
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)

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

Sorrry, that work only on >MS SQL 2005