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Version: 24.3.x

Categories: Binary, Conversion

ENCODE

Encodes the input expression using the specified charSet character encoding.

Syntax​

ENCODE(expression string, charSet_type string) → varbinary​

  • expression: The expression to be encoded.
  • charSet_type: The charSet type to use for the conversion.

Examples

ENCODE example 
SELECT ENCODE('Dremio', 'US-ASCII')
-- RHJlbWlv
ENCODE example 
SELECT ENCODE('Dremio', 'UTF-16BE')
-- AEQAcgBlAG0AaQBv

Usage Notes​

The charset must be one of (case-insensitive):

  • US-ASCII
  • ISO-8859-1
  • UTF-8
  • UTF-16BE
  • UTF-16LE
  • UTF-16