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The BYTE_SUBSTR64 and BYTE_SUBSTR functions return the long binary byte substring of the LONG BINARY column parameter.
The BYTE_SUBSTR64 and BYTE_SUBSTR functions also support the LONG VARCHAR data type and LONG BINARY and LONG VARCHAR variables of any data size.
See Chapter 9, “Function Support” in Unstructured Data Analytics in Sybase IQ.
Users must be specifically licensed to use the large object data types LONG BINARY and LONG VARCHAR. For details on the Unstructured Data Analytics Option, see Unstructured Data Analytics in Sybase IQ.
