>>Hi,
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>>The way I understand is a MD5 hash returns a value of a string of 32 alphanumeric characters (correct me, please, if I am wrong). And I understand that this is regardless of the length of the string passed to the hash function.
>>Therefore, what would be the type and the size of the column in SQL server database best to store the value?
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>>TIA
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>Binary.
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>MartinaJ
Thank you. You mean Binary(32) (sorry for a newbie question since I have never used binary before)?
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