Converting a String to HEX in SQL
Solution 1:
Can you use Cast and the fn_varbintohexstr?
SELECT master.dbo.fn_varbintohexstr(CAST(SomeStringColumn AS varbinary))
FROM SomeTable
I'm not sure if you have that function in your database system, it is in MS-SQL.
I just tried it in my SQL server MMC on one of my tables:
SELECT master.dbo.fn_varbintohexstr(CAST(Addr1 AS VARBINARY)) AS Expr1
FROM Customer
This worked as expected. possibly what I know as master.dbo.fn_varbintohexstr on MS-SQL, might be similar to informix hex() function, so possibly try:
SELECT hex(CAST(Addr1 AS VARBINARY)) AS Expr1
FROM Customer
Solution 2:
The following works in Sql 2005.
select convert(varbinary, SomeStringColumn) from SomeTable