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I am trying to select the Info field from BatchHistory Table.. somehow this is treated as varbinary, so I tried casting this as varchar but its still not how as I wanted it. Can anyone guide me on how to convert this as same as info log?

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    Anton Venter 20,670 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    The Info field in the BatchHistory table is of type container which is a varbinary type in the SQL database. You will have to use X++ code to extract the information from the binary data. The following code is a crude example of how to extract the original data. See the infoLog.viewBuild method for more details on how AX does it.

    static void AV_batchHistoryShowInfo(Args _args)
{
    SysInfologEnumerator    enum;
    BatchHistory            batchHistory;
    
    select firstOnly batchHistory; //for demonstration purposes only
    
    enum = SysInfologEnumerator::newData(batchHistory.Info);
    
    while (enum.moveNext())
    {
        info(enum.currentMessage());
    }
    
}
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    Community Member on at

    Thank you. I guess there is no way around it for SQL.

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    Anton Venter 20,670 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    You are welcome. Correct, there is no way around it for SQL.

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