That was my first reaction too. Haven't spent time staring at base64 encoding for a long time. Knew someone would recognise it though. The brains trust comes through again!
Regards Greg Dr Greg Low SQL Down Under +61 419201410 1300SQLSQL (1300775775) On 10 Sep 2015, at 3:55 pm, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com<mailto:step...@perthprojects.com>> wrote: How did you get my Azure certificate? wtf?? Seriously though, the trailing == on the end (plus the overall look) makes it look exactly like an Azure publish certificate. On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 at 08:39 Greg Low (罗格雷格博士) <g...@greglow.com<mailto:g...@greglow.com>> wrote: Perfect thanks Thomas. I'll just have to add a base64 decode function and I should be fine. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.com<http://www.sqldownunder.com> -----Original Message----- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com>] On Behalf Of Thomas Koster Sent: Thursday, 10 September 2015 10:33 AM To: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>> Subject: Re: Odd text encoding On 10 September 2015 at 10:21, Greg Low (罗格雷格博士) <g...@greglow.com<mailto:g...@greglow.com>> wrote: > This one’s driving me crazy and I thought the brains trust might have > an idea. > > Here’s a value that’s stored in an ntext column in a SQL Server DB: > H4sIAAAAAAAEALVW0W7aMBT9lanvre0wBkNtJEo3DWkFBGGvyDiXYi22M9vpYL/Wh33Sfm > GGJASatKOS95KH3HvPyTk+tvPn6fe1NLg3Bas5PMIsS0H3GVOZtJGm0lBmuZJfuLFKb99t > RCJNzw3cXKytTXsIGbYGQc2V4Ewro1b2iimBZj8SFGDcRbiNom0K8UQrBnGmwaB4qS4OQI > S8AakCmYLJEjsDu4dD5dffg1iC/sZjUF+5/F7RdP2zTEAbJWlyB5byxFRc7/1zFQsyjEFa > vuKM7takYmz/N8ZZJgTV24rqo3+qfeSG8hGMFU7fON2JO/KTeDX09YBXrB3/QgdKWsdWCw > zxwjVPY2qhH8euZOocH3xwmHTxAHaRgjTOswXNbVwsaUIlg6CiC7xs61zSZK0k1AX9g8CB > txDBaAaa04T/2m8ZdDTvJcn5FxYHAjXmp9JxxdHymaFyR6bAnCCXpZg/3yhvOZXPzGxEN3 > vnav57ydMp1y01nNUX2quLkzy6ZxwAgRc3TwLy0o1BvB7gcwNaUgH1PBIv12Au6ZNwGkol > 4f4fIl3kOkfZ7hm2MOm0OteooVS0F6swcHAPzvuwPxjM70k58bxaDB2t2aE0GI+i6fB2Hg > 3Ho3K8qa8OcedKn7USYYBJ+xJ3LjFpADh0NQNEqhjvOoQXxl1PaRLd5DaMV0c9IcH44FVz > x6lrjS6f1vK359184V9pkluuCgoAAA== > > Somehow, that’s apparently meant to be either a) an XML file, or b) a > GZipped XML file. echo "H4s...." | base64 -d | gunzip <snip>
