How does SSMS display varbinary data? When you store a .jpg file in a varbinary(max) column and then view the data in SQL Server Management Studio, it appears like &quot;0xFFD8FFE000...&quot;
Is this Hex Encoded or something?  What is SQL Server doing to generate this string?  Can it be converted to a valid JPG file?
It's binary data with some additional Hex characters for padding, etc per the Microsoft Docs: binary and varbinary

Padding is achieved by using hexadecimal zeros.