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PWDENCRYPT (Transact-SQL)

SQL Server 2012

SQL Server 2008 R2
SQL Server 2008

Returns the SQL Server password hash of the input value that uses the current version of the password hashing algorithm.

PWDENCRYPT is an older function and might not be supported in a future release of SQL Server. Use HASHBYTES instead. HASHBYTES provides more hashing algorithms.

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Syntax


          

PWDENCRYPT ( 'password' )

Arguments

password: Is the password to be encrypted. password is sysname.

Return Types

varbinary(128)

Permissions

PWDENCRYPT is available to public.

Reference

Security Functions (Transact-SQL)

PWDCOMPARE (Transact-SQL)

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