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Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem

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From	Shelly <sheldonlg@thevillages.net>
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Subject	Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem
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On 6/20/2014 10:16 AM, Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> 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.

Thanks.  I'll try that.

-- 
Shelly

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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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