How To Enter Binary String Literals?

-- Size matches
DECLARE @x BINARY(8);
SET @x = 0x2605260626402642;
PRINT @x;
GO
0x2605260626402642

-- Truncated
DECLARE @x BINARY(4);
SET @x = 0x2605260626402642;
PRINT @x;
GO
0x26052606

-- Padded
DECLARE @x BINARY(12);
SET @x = 0x2605260626402642;
PRINT @x;
GO
0x260526062640264200000000

-- No padding on variable length data type
DECLARE @x VARBINARY(8);
SET @x = 0x; -- Empty binary string
PRINT @x;
GO
0x

-- Padding on fixed length data type
DECLARE @x BINARY(8);
SET @x = 0x; -- Empty binary strings
PRINT @x;
GO
0x0000000000000000