Updated: 27 August 2010
Use HEX2DEC to convert a hexadecimal number to decimal.
Syntax
SELECT [wctEngineering].[wct].[HEX2DEC] (
<@Number, nvarchar(4000),>)
Arguments
@Number
is the hexadecimal number you want to convert. @Number cannot contain more than 10 characters. The most significant bit of @Number is the sign bit (40th bit from the right). The remaining 39 bits are magnitude bits. Negative numbers are represented using two's-complement notation. @Number is an expression of type float or of a type that can be implicitly converted to float.
Return Types
float
Remarks
· If @Number is not a valid hexadecimal number, HEX2DEC returns an error.
Examples
select wct.HEX2DEC('A5')
This produces the following result
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165
(1 row(s) affected)
select wct.HEX2DEC('FFFFFFFF5B')
This produces the following result
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-165
(1 row(s) affected)
select wct.HEX2DEC('3DA408B9')
This produces the following result
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1034160313
(1 row(s) affected)