In SQL Server would a varbinary(16) be the most efficient way of storing an MD5 hash? Won’t be doing anything with it except returning it in a linq query.
In SQL Server would a varbinary(16) be the most efficient way of storing an
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In SQL Server would a varbinary(16) be the most efficient way of storing an MD5 hash? Won’t be doing anything with it except returning it in a linq query.
Based on the documentation on MSDN and my experience, binary is better, since the md5 hash does not vary in size.
The size for a binary data type is n bytes, so the size of the data. The size of a varbinary data type is n bytes + 2 bytes on top of the size of the data.