Categories:: Semi-structured and structured data functions (Type Predicates)

IS_BINARY¶

Returns TRUE if its VARIANT argument contains a binary string.

See also:: IS_<object_type>

Syntax¶

IS_BINARY( <variant_expr> )

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Examples¶

Get all binary values in a variable column.

Note

The output format for binary values is set using the BINARY_OUTPUT_FORMAT parameter. The default setting is HEX.

Create and load the table:

create or replace table varbin (v variant);
insert into varbin select to_variant(to_binary('snow', 'utf-8'));

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Show the data:

select v AS hex_encoded_binary_value 
    from varbin 
    where is_binary(v);
+--------------------------+
| HEX_ENCODED_BINARY_VALUE |
|--------------------------|
| "736E6F77"               |
+--------------------------+

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