When I do a select on an image column in SQL Server 2005, I see something like “0xFFD8FFE…” and I know a gif file is binary and starts with GIF89a…
So does SQL Server encode the column for display in Management Studio?
In C#, is the content saved using a byte array?
No, this is hex representation of bytes array (basically 0x00 always indicates HEX format)
Regarding image column type: