hi ppl, i just want to ask about data handling in C/C++ programming.

Say it like this. i have a table in SQL Server 2000 and one of the data field in that table with image data type, and when i the table content, it just appear "<binary>" in data field value. But in this field value have encoded text.

So my problem is:

1) i wanna retrieve the binary data in that table and return it to my program and hold it with some type of variable. i wanna know about the var type which support that kind of data type such as DWORD or WORD i think...

2) some fellow said that the data can be decode to normal again by using some sort of internal function like System.??.ascii.??

3) and i wanna know how to passing the value from one binary data type to another (the syntax example..)

i'm stuck on that problem i mention above..

tx for ur intention..