Not available in Cloud edition.
Type:
Scalar function
Decodes text using the specified encoding.
Return value: nvarchar(max)
The decoded text.
Parameters
@Data
mandatory
varbinary(max)
The encoded bytes.
@Encoding
mandatory
nvarchar(300)
The encoding to use. This can be a string such as 'us-ascii', 'utf-8' or 'iso-8859-1'. It can also specify a windows code page, such as 1252.