Get the blob as a byte array, data() = DataReader.GetBytes(column), then use my BytesConverter library
http://www.basic4ppc.com/forum/addit...html#post14218 to convert the value you want. Watch out for possible little/bigendian problems depending upon the source of the data for the blob.
Note that, as documented in the help, the library converts one or more bytes of an array to a fundamental data type. Then Basic4ppc, which knows about all the fundamental types, converts that data on input into its own internal representation which is in fact a string.