Hello,
Does anybody know what is the documented and known behavior of
inserting/updating binary columns using host variables from a client to a
server which have different code pages? Will any code page / character set
conversion take place? I am particulary interested in insert/update from
subqueries.

eg:
insert into t1(binarycol) select :HV1 from t2
versus
insert into t1(binarycol) select :HV1||charcol from t2

update t1 set bytecol=:HV1
versus
update t1 set bytecol=:HV1||'abc'

insert into t1 (bytecol) values(:HV1)
versus
insert into t1 (bytecol) values(:HV1||'abc')

Is the conversion dependent on the context?
Thanks
Aakash

Aakash Bordia (a_bordia@hotmail.com) writes:
> Does anybody know what is the documented and known behavior of
> inserting/updating binary columns using host variables from a client to a
> server which have different code pages? Will any code page / character set
> conversion take place? I am particulary interested in insert/update from
> subqueries.

In SQL Server there is no implicit conversion from character to
binary.

You seem to be using some form of embedded SQL, and this product
might supply such conversion. In this case I would expect the conversion
to binary happen on the client side, and thus the binary value will
reflect the code page on the client.

But this is speculation on my part. You are probably off testing to
see what happens.


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