converting binary data to another data type

I have a client application written in C++ to takes an array of doubles and
stores it into a SQL Server 2000 database as an image data type.
We just upgraded to Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005.
Can the Reporting Services take this image data and convert it to an array
of doubles so that it can be displayed using Reporting Services?
Thanks,
GloriaGloria (Gloria@.discussions.microsoft.com) writes:
> I have a client application written in C++ to takes an array of doubles
> and stores it into a SQL Server 2000 database as an image data type.
> We just upgraded to Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005.
> Can the Reporting Services take this image data and convert it to an array
> of doubles so that it can be displayed using Reporting Services?
I don't know Reporting Services, so I canot answer the question with any
certainty, but my gut feeling is that you would have to call some piece
of code to unpack that array. Tip: there is a Reporting Services newsgroup,
microsoft.public.sqlserver.reportingsvcs.
The main reason I post, is that I can't refrain from making the comment
table design appears a bit unorthodox to me. Or to put it more bluntly, a
serious violation of first normal form since it includs a repearing
group. The normal way of storing the data would be have a subtable,
and store one float value on each row.
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se
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