: This generates a 128-bit MD5 hash of the input string, returned as a varbinary value.
: Using sys.fn_sqlvarbasetostr is generally discouraged in production code because it is an undocumented internal function. A more standard approach in T-SQL is CONVERT(INT, HashBytes('MD5', '...'), 2) or directly casting the binary to an integer. : This generates a 128-bit MD5 hash of
: Distributing data rows into different "buckets" or shards by hashing a unique ID. : This generates a 128-bit MD5 hash of