SQL Server’s hashing function HASHBYTES has an input limit of 8000 bytes.
How do you hash larger strings?
SQL Server’s hashing function HASHBYTES has an input limit of 8000 bytes. How do
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SQL Server’s hashing function HASHBYTES has an input limit of 8000 bytes.
How do you hash larger strings?
You could hash 8k (or 4k or 2k) chunks of the input and then either concatenate those hashes or hash them into a new hash value. This might get difficult though if you have to create a similar algorithm (in an external .NET app for example) to compare hashes created outside of SQL Server.
Another option: Lean on SQL Server’s CLR integration and perform the hashing in a .NET assembly.