Examples | TO_BYTES Function | Teradata Vantage - Example: Decoding a Sequence of Characters to Base16 - Teradata Vantage - Analytics Database

SQL Data Types and Literals
Deployment
VantageCloud
VantageCore
Edition
VMware
Enterprise
IntelliFlex
Product
Analytics Database
Teradata Vantage
Release Number
17.20
Published
June 2022
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en-US
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2025-11-06
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Product Category
Teradata Vantage™

The following query:

SELECT CAST (TO_BYTES ('5A', 'base16') as BYTE (16));
TO_BYTES('5A','base16')

returns '5A-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 '