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{ “title”: “FROM_BASE64_BINARY”, “language”: “en”, “description”: “The FROMBASE64BINARY function decodes a Base64-encoded string and returns the result as a VARBINARY value.” }

Description

The FROM_BASE64_BINARY function decodes a Base64-encoded string and returns the result as a VARBINARY value.

Special cases:

• If the input string is not a valid Base64-encoded string, the function returns NULL.

Syntax

FROM_BASE64_BINARY ( <str> )

Parameters

Parameter	Description
<str>	The Base64-encoded string to be decoded.

Return value

The parameter <str> decoded from Base64, returned as a VARBINARY result.

Special cases:

• When the input string is invalid (contains characters not possible in Base64 encoding), returns NULL.

Example

SELECT FROM_BASE64_BINARY('MQ==');

+--------------------------------------------------------+
| FROM_BASE64_BINARY('MQ==')                             |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| 0x31                                                   |
+--------------------------------------------------------+

SELECT FROM_BASE64_BINARY('MjM0');

+--------------------------------------------------------+
| FROM_BASE64_BINARY('MjM0')                             |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| 0x323334                                               |
+--------------------------------------------------------+

SELECT FROM_BASE64_BINARY(NULL);

+----------------------------------------------------+
| FROM_BASE64_BINARY(NULL)                           |
+----------------------------------------------------+
| NULL                                               |
+----------------------------------------------------+