Cast CHAR/VARCHAR to VARBYTE - response (8) by suhailmemon84

Hi Dieter/Veskojl,
I'm looking for something to do the reverse: convert a varbyte back to varchar. I'm really in search of a UDF or some method within teradata to convert varbyte to varchar. So I'm hoping you guys can help me out. I need to store all rows in the error table of fastload into a persistent error table(its ddl matches with that of the target table but all fields are all varchar). I could do the method of exporting the records of error table into the client system and read them back again into a table with all varchar but all of this seems unnecessary(and frankly quite crude) to me. I'd like a method to keep the record within teradata itself and achieve this objective. We're on TD 13.10.
 
My primary objective is to read the error records from a fastload ACQUISITION Phase error table and load it into a table that matches exactly with the target table except all datatypes of this table are varchar. I want to do this without exporting the error records to a client system and then reading them back again into teradata.
 
PS: I have been posting the above comment in multiple forum posts(on this website) that are related to discussions on the varbyte datatype. One of the forum posts does talk about a UDF: varbytetovarchar.c but I could not find the installable anywhere on the internet. If you know of any such function, please let me know.
 
Regards,
Suhail