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From: Shelly <sheldonlg@thevillages.net>
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Subject: Re: Varbinary and nvarchar problem
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 09:17:59 -0400
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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