Question

I have a field named X where the fieldtype is Binary(15).
Now I am updating the table with

Update Table_name 
Set X = 567845329090989
Where some_condition

Now after executing the above command in the table while viewing I am seeing that the column is updated with the following

0x0000000F000001ADB920CB73040200

This is not Hexadecimal value also. How is this working?

Answer 1

• 567845329090989 is bigint decimal(15,0)
• using Windows calculator, this is 0x20473CB20B9AD
• the value above is 0x0000000F000001 ADB920CB730402 00

I forget exact details but it’s to do with endianess (SO)