Getting Data In

Is there a way to get Splunk DB Connect 1 to parse a binary column into Splunk-friendly ASCII?

mcomfurf
Path Finder

I have a DB Connect query for which the results in one column read as ***** BINARY ***** Is there a way to get DBConnect V1 to parse that column into Splunk-friendly ASCII?

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jcoates_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

The best way to resolve this is to use SQL's CAST or CONVERT command to turn the column into something that Splunk can parse.

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