Example: Retrieving Binary Data

The following query returns the product photo stored in a varbinary(max) type column. The BINARY BASE64 option is specified in the query to return the binary data in base64-encoded format.

Example

USE AdventureWorks2008R2;
GO
SELECT ProductPhotoID, ThumbNailPhoto
FROM Production.ProductPhoto
WHERE ProductPhotoID=1
FOR XML RAW, BINARY BASE64 ;
GO

This is the result:

<row ProductModelID="1" ThumbNailPhoto="base64 encoded binary data"/>

See Also

Reference

Using RAW Mode