George H. (6/26/2012)
Why does SQL Server spit the results out in this format rather than in straight binary, like this:
01100001 01100010 01100011 01100100 01100101 01100110 01100111I apologize if this is a really stupid question.
Not a stupid question. Really there isn't a real reason, just convention and the fact that most people find base 16 (hex) easier to deal with than base 2, and not as bit-blind as base 10.