I'm working on storing my results in a SQL Server database. the result column is a VARBINARY(MAX) datatype. Is it possible to write a SQL Query to convert this data to readable text?

I know how to use AsyncResult to get it in python. However, I want to be able to do get the result outside of python.

An example result = 0x80049509000000000000008C056569646153942E

Is this JSON? Is it base64 encoded? UTF-8? I notice all the entries start with 0x800495. Googling that doesn't yield any results. Just having a hard time knowing where to start. Just need someone to point me in the right direction.

UPDATE: The hex example above is pickled data.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55533906/unpickle-element-that-was-pickled-with-sqlalchemy-by-hand

my_string = '0x80049509000000000000008C056569646153942E'

pickled_data = bytes.fromhex(my_string[2:])

obj = pickle.loads(pickled_data)
print(obj)

So, new questions - 1) Anyone know the TSQL equivalent to the this python code? 2) I know this is celery and not sqlalchemy, but does anyone know if there's a way to prevent sqlalchemy from pickling the result or use json instead of pickle before writing it to the database?