Question

I have a program in which the user needs to login with user name and password.
I’m checking the name from the sys.syslogins table in master db.
But for the password I receive a string with (probably) coded characters like this (1?????????????).
Now what can I do in order to decode that string and take the password in order to compare with the enter it one?

Answer 1

Try this:

SELECT name FROM sys.syslogins
WHERE pwdcompare('somepassword', password) = 1

Edited to replace double quotes with single quotes.