Friday 16 February 2018

HASHBYTES and FOR XML to create a binary checksum

SELECT TOP (1000) [Id]
      ,[AboutMe]
      ,[Age]
      ,[CreationDate]
      ,[DisplayName]
      ,[DownVotes]
      ,[EmailHash]
      ,[LastAccessDate]
      ,CHKSUM = CONVERT(VARBINARY(20),HASHBYTES('MD5', (SELECT s.* FROM (VALUES(NULL))Foo(Bar) FOR XML AUTO, BINARY BASE64)))
  FROM [StackOverFlow2010].[dbo].[Users] s