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Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem

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From	Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>
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Subject	Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem
Date	Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:16:07 +0200
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Shelly (sheldonlg@thevillages.net) writes:
> Anyway, I have the solution.  It is to enclose the HASHBYTES stuff with 
> the following:
> 
> SUBSTRING(master.dbo.fn_varbintohexstr(  hashbytes calculation ), 3, 32).
> 
> The result is a 32 character hex string put into the tracking table.
> 

If you are on SQL 2008, use

  convert(varchar(32), hashbytes, 2)

instead, as this is a documented and supported way to get a hex string.


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Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se

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Varbinary and nvarchar problem Shelly <sheldonlg@thevillages.net> - 2014-06-19 15:00 -0400
  Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2014-06-19 23:06 +0200
    Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem Shelly <sheldonlg@thevillages.net> - 2014-06-19 17:49 -0400
      Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2014-06-20 16:16 +0200
        Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem Shelly <sheldonlg@thevillages.net> - 2014-06-21 09:17 -0400
        Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem Shelly <sheldonlg@thevillages.net> - 2014-06-23 09:49 -0400
          Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem Shelly <sheldonlg@thevillages.net> - 2014-06-23 10:27 -0400
            Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2014-06-23 21:33 +0200
              Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem Shelly <sheldonlg@thevillages.net> - 2014-06-23 16:35 -0400
                Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2014-06-24 07:19 +0000

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