Insert hex string value to sql server image field is appending extra 0

Question

Have an image field and want to insert into this from a hex string:

insert into imageTable(imageField) 
values(convert(image, 0x3C3F78...))

how

Answer 1

I have just had similar problem and I blame myself.

It is possible, that you copy just part of data you need. In my case, I added '0' to the end of the blob.

The cause of this could be copying the value from SQL Management Studio to clipboard.

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insert into imageTable(imageField) values(0x3C3F78...A)

Select returned: 0x03C3F78...

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insert into imageTable(imageField) values(0x3C3F78...A 0 )

Select returned: 0x3C3F78...

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I hope this will help.

Best wishes.