How to convert BLOB to varchar with SAP HANA database using SQL
问题 how do I cast a blob to varchar with SAP HANA database using SQL. (we need the column to be stored in blob - not TEXT - in else HANA automatically creates an index on this column. But we need an index with full-text-search and CORE_EXTRACTION) The following code select cast("DESCRIPTION" as varchar) "D" from "DESC" returns Could not execute 'select cast("DESCRIPTION" as varchar) "D" from "DESC"' in 30 ms 168 µs . SAP DBTech JDBC: [266]: inconsistent datatype: 回答1: Solved the problem with this