TO_BINARY

Author: soyeric128

docs/en/sql-reference/20-sql-functions/02-conversion-functions/to-binary.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import FunctionDescription from '@site/src/components/FunctionDescription';
 
 <FunctionDescription description="Introduced or updated: v1.2.673"/>
 
-Converts supported data types, including variant, bitmap, geometry, and geography, into their binary representation.
+Converts supported data types, including string, variant, bitmap, geometry, and geography, into their binary representation (hex format).
 
 See also: [TRY_TO_BINARY](try-to-binary.md)
 
@@ -17,6 +17,18 @@ TO_BINARY( <expr> )
 
 ## Examples
 
+This example converts a string to binary:
+
+```sql
+SELECT TO_BINARY('Databend');
+
+┌───────────────────────┐
+│ to_binary('Databend') │
+├───────────────────────┤
+│ 4461746162656E64      │
+└───────────────────────┘
+```
+
 This example converts JSON data to binary:
 
 ```sql

docs/en/sql-reference/20-sql-functions/02-conversion-functions/try-to-binary.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import FunctionDescription from '@site/src/components/FunctionDescription';
 
 <FunctionDescription description="Introduced or updated: v1.2.673"/>
 
-Attempts to convert supported data types, including variant, bitmap, geometry, and geography, into their binary representation, returning `NULL` if the conversion fails.
+An enhanced version of [TO_BINARY](to-binary.md) that converts an input expression to a binary value, returning `NULL` if the conversion fails instead of raising an error.
 
 See also: [TO_BINARY](to-binary.md)