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On Microsoft SQL Server SQL> SELECT HASHBYTES('MD5', source).... Source: varchar, nvarchar, ou varbinary, 8000 chars max. On Oracle PL/SQL> myhash := dbms_crypto.hash( source, dbms_crypto.HASH_MD5 ); SQL> select dbms_crypto.hash(utl_raw.cast_to_raw(source),2) ... Source: RAW, BLOB, et CLOB. With implicite conversion, you can also use CHAR, VARCHAR2, NCHAR, NVARCHAR2 et LONG. On Sybase sybase> SELECT HASHBYTES('MD5', source).... On MySQL mysql> SELECT MD5(source) ....