SQL
Scalar Utility Functions
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| **Description** |Returns the content from `source` (a filename, a list of filenames, or a glob pattern) as a `BLOB`. See the [`read_blob` guide](#docs:guides:file_formats:read_file::read_blob) for more details. |
| **Example** | `read_blob('hello.bin')` |
| **Result** | `hello\x0A` |