How to access ADO recordset field with array of 8 bytes ?

[andrewd27]

I have a column that stores numbers as 8 byte binary hex numbers eg. 0x0040000000000009
My problem is when I get this column in an ADO recordset I cannot access the value to show in an ASP page as a meaningfull number. The ADO recordset stores it as an array of bits which I don't know how to handle ?

question 1. Can I access this value in the ADO rs in a meaningfull way ?

question 2. Is there a way to convert this value into an 8 byte integer ? I used CONVERT(int, 0x0040000000000009) but this returned 9 the same value when I tried CONVERT(int, 0x0000000000000009) so cleary it is truncating to 4 bytes !!