> Logical bitwise operations on the binary datatype simply hasn't been implemented.
> There hasn't been much demand for it.
Agreed - I wouldn't expect much demand - but a useful feature.
> >Is there some sort of work around ?
> You could use substring to process larger binary values 4 bytes as a time.
Thanks - That's what we've done.
> Changes are being made all the time.
I'd really like to see what's on the roadmap. Sybase 16 didn't have any features for us developers but I appreciate 16 was about internal changes. Hope we'll see some developer features in 16.1
> If there was a strong business case for supporting bitwise
> operators on BINARY(), I don't see any reason the feature couldn't be implemented.
I can't confess there's *strong* business case but there's is a case.
Thanks for the endianism - I suspected the endianism might an issue with portability. But we've moved off Sparc a couple of years ago and don't expect we'll be changing hardware.
