Ad-hoc retreival of data from SQL Server varbinary column

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Published on 2010-04-28T09:02:27Z Indexed on 2010/04/28 9:23 UTC
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I would like to retreive some binary data from a varbinary(max) column in a SQL Server database for debugging purposes.

What is the easiest way to get this data into a local binary file, preferably without having to write a throw-away console application?

I have tried using SQL Server Management Studio but this returns a hex encoded binary string, rather than raw binary data (even with the "results to file" option).

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