Charlottecb (9/21/2011)
Hi, thanks for the response. I have no control over the original dumping of the varbinary data - it' done by an external system which I have no control over.
But as Lowell asked, do you have the filename (or the file extension)? That will make a TON of difference. without it you are going to have to do a ton of work to determine what type of file it is.
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