What is VARBINARY data type?

Is VARBINARY same as binary?

Both BINARY and VARBINARY are both binary byte data types. But they have the following major differences: BINARY stores values in fixed lengths. Values are padded with 0x00.

How can I see VARBINARY data in SQL Server?

INSERT INTO #TempTable(PK, VarBinaryColumn) SELECT PK, VarBinaryColumn FROM dbo. YourPermanentTable; If you need to convert the varbinary data back to the original file text format in T-SQL, you can use CAST or CONVERT to convert to varchar or nvarchar as long as the data was originally ASCII or Unicode.

Is VARBINARY same as BLOB?

Ultimately, VARBINARY is virtually the same as BLOB (from the perspective of what can be stored in it), unless you want to preserve compatibility with "old" versions of MySQL.

What is Oracle VARBINARY?

The other option we have is the VARBINARY(n) datatype in SQL Server. This datatypes stores variable length binary data between 1 and 8000 bytes. If we need to store more than 8000 bytes of binary data in SQL Server we can also use this datatype and specify MAX as the size.