I am using DBI::ODBC to connect to MS SQL Server 2000 and I need to pull the SID for a given user out of the sysusers table. This column is varbinary though and is creating havoc on my output.

Here is some sample code: 

my $DSN = 'driver={SQL Server};Server=new-borg;database=master;uid=;pw
+d=;';
my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$DSN") or die "$DBI::errstr\n";

my $sql = qq{ select * from sysusers };

my $sth = $dbh->prepare ($sql);
$sth->execute();

while (@row = $sth->fetchrow_array()) {
    print $#row,':',join(':',@row),"\n";
}

$sth->finish();

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Some output from this is here: 

5:14:IUSRBEVO:☺♣     ♣§   ₧§J|╝zê∟
+j7╞?  : :2000-09-22 14:08:48.217:2000-09-22 14:08:48.217:0::0::
+1:1:1:0:1:0:0:0:0
7:2:ARAdmin:♥┼ºoAá╥◄╜╜ á$J§╛
+:@:2003-02-18 13:08:06.370:2003-02-18 13:08:06.697:0::0::1:1:0:0:0:1:
+0:0:0

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But, when I query this in SQL Server I get the following: 
5:14:IUSRBEVO:0x0105000000000005150000009E15AE084A7CBC7A881C6A37C63F00
+00:0x00:2000-09-22 14:08:48.217:2000-09-22 14:08:48.217:0:NULL:0:NULL
+:1:1:1:0:1:0:0:0:0
7:2:ARAdmin:0x03C5A76F41A0D211BDBD00A0244A15BE:0x40:2003-02-18 13:08:0
+6.370:2003-02-18 13:08:06.697:0:NULL:0:NULL:1:1:0:0:0:1:0:0:0

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Notice that the 4th column in SQL Server starts with "0x" and then the SID but the text I get does not as it is being interpreted as a binary number.

Anyone have experience with this? Getting text out of a varbinary column?

Ed

In reply to SQLServer varbinary headache by bfdi533

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