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Obtaining ASCII Values from Characters in SQL

Obtaining ASCII Values from Characters in SQL

With the ASCII function you can return a certain character’s ASCII value, as shown in the following example:

SELECT ASCII('A') AS A, ASCII('B') AS B, ASCII('a') AS a, ASCII('b') AS b, ASCII(1) AS [1], ASCII(2) AS [2],ASCII('!') AS [!], ASCII('@') AS [@],ASCII('') AS [], ASCII('/') AS [/]
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