varbinary to string on SQL Server

Question

How to convert a column value from varbinary(max) to varchar in human-readable form?

Answer 1

Have a go at the below as I was struggling too original post [Here][1]

bcp "SELECT CAST(BINARYCOL AS VARCHAR(MAX)) FROM OLTP_TABLE WHERE ID=123123 AND COMPANYID=123" 
queryout "C:\Users\USER\Documents\ps_scripts\res.txt" -c -S myserver.db.com  -U admin -P password


  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60525910/powershell-truncating-sql-query-output?noredirect=1#comment107077512_60525910