HexToChar

USE AdventureWorks2008R2;
GO
IF EXISTS(SELECT name FROM sys.objects
          WHERE name = N'dbo.sp_HexToChar')
    DROP PROCEDURE HexToChar;
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.sp_HexToChar
    @BinValue varbinary(255),
    @HexCharValue nvarchar(255) OUTPUT
AS
    DECLARE @CharValue nvarchar(255);
    DECLARE @Position int;
    DECLARE @Length int;
    DECLARE @HexString nchar(16);
    SELECT @CharValue = N'0x';
    SELECT @Position = 1;
    SELECT @Length = DATALENGTH(@BinValue);
    SELECT @HexString = N'0123456789ABCDEF';
    WHILE (@Position <= @Length)
    BEGIN
        DECLARE @TempInt int;
        DECLARE @FirstInt int;
        DECLARE @SecondInt int;
        SELECT @TempInt = CONVERT(int, SUBSTRING(@BinValue,@Position,1));
        SELECT @FirstInt = FLOOR(@TempInt/16);
        SELECT @SecondInt = @TempInt - (@FirstInt*16);
        SELECT @CharValue = @CharValue +
            SUBSTRING(@HexString, @FirstInt+1, 1) +
            SUBSTRING(@HexString, @SecondInt+1, 1);
        SELECT @Position = @Position + 1;
    END
    SELECT @HexCharValue = @CharValue;
GO
DECLARE @BinVariable varbinary(35);
DECLARE @CharValue nvarchar(35);

SET @BinVariable = 123456;

EXECUTE dbo.sp_HexToChar
    @binvalue = @BinVariable,
    @HexCharValue = @CharValue OUTPUT;

SELECT @BinVariable AS BinaryValue,
    @CharValue AS CharacterRep;
GO