SQL Server Hexadecimal data type

I'm looking for a datatype in SQL Server that stores data as hexadecimal rather than int, but can开发者_开发问答't find anything similar. Surely there is a hexadecimal datatype?

Store it as an INT and use the HEX() function to convert it.

There's no native storage for hexadecimal in SQL Server.

EDIT:

You can also store hex data as VARBINARY, but there is still a conversion required, and there are data integrity issues with that method as well.