Returns the MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA, SHA1, or SHA2 hash of its input in SQL Server.
Speed of the Hash function. SQL Server exposes a series of hash functions that can be used to generate a hash based on one or more columns. The most basic functions are CHECKSUM and BINARYCHECKSUM. These two functions each take a column as input and outputs a 32-bit integer. Inside SQL Server, you will also find the HASHBYTES function. This little gem can generate hashes using MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA and SHA1 algorithms. May 02, 2016 How can we generate hashes in SQL code? The HashBytes function comes to the rescue here. This function allows us to generate an MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA, SHA1, or SHA2 hash from the given input. So things are looking up, we have our Base64 salt and we can generate hashes from SQL. So if we use the following script, we will have our hashed password: Well yes, but its not quite how we want it. This script produces the hash: 0x2F33DE1318B105EB8D1EE3B468486C7EB93D03030D0BF8A281B54F.
<algorithm>
Identifies the hashing algorithm to be used to hash the input. This is a required argument with no default. The single quotation marks are required. Beginning with SQL Server 2016 (13.x), all algorithms other than SHA2_256, and SHA2_512 are deprecated.
@input
Specifies a variable containing the data to be hashed. @input
is varchar, nvarchar, or varbinary.
'input'
Motorola system key generator path. Specifies an expression that evaluates to a character or binary string to be hashed.
The output conforms to the algorithm standard: 128 bits (16 bytes) for MD2, MD4, and MD5; 160 bits (20 bytes) for SHA and SHA1; 256 bits (32 bytes) for SHA2_256, and 512 bits (64 bytes) for SHA2_512.
Applies to: SQL Server 2012 (11.x) and later
For SQL Server 2014 (12.x) and earlier, allowed input values are limited to 8000 bytes.
varbinary (maximum 8000 bytes)
Consider using CHECKSUM
or BINARY_CHECKSUM
as alternatives to compute a hash value.
The MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA, and SHA1 algorithms are deprecated starting with SQL Server 2016 (13.x). Use SHA2_256 or SHA2_512 instead. Older algorithms will continue working, but they will raise a deprecation event.
The following example returns the SHA2_256
hash of the nvarchar data stored in variable @HashThis
.
The following example returns the SHA2_256 hash of the values in column c1
in the table Test1
.
Here is the result set.
This MD5 hash generator is useful for encoding passwords, credit cards numbers and other sensitive date into MySQL, Postgress or other databases. PHP programmers, ASP programmers and anyone developing on MySQL, SQL, Postgress or similar should find this online tool an especially handy resource.
An MD5 hash is created by taking a string of an any length and encoding it into a 128-bit fingerprint. Encoding the same string using the MD5 algorithm will always result in the same 128-bit hash output. MD5 hashes are commonly used with smaller strings when storing passwords, credit card numbers or other sensitive data in databases such as the popular MySQL. This tool provides a quick and easy way to encode an MD5 hash from a simple string of up to 256 characters in length.
MD5 hashes are also used to ensure the data integrity of files. Because the MD5 hash algorithm always produces the same output for the same given input, users can compare a hash of the source file with a newly created hash of the destination file to check that it is intact and unmodified.
An MD5 hash is NOT encryption. It is simply a fingerprint of the given input. However, it is a one-way transaction and as such it is almost impossible to reverse engineer an MD5 hash to retrieve the original string.