| title | PWDENCRYPT (Transact-SQL) | ||
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| description | PWDENCRYPT (Transact-SQL) | ||
| author | VanMSFT | ||
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| ms.date | 03/14/2017 | ||
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| ms.subservice | t-sql | ||
| ms.topic | reference | ||
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[!INCLUDE SQL Server Azure SQL Managed Instance FabricSQLDB]
Returns the [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] password hash of the input value that uses the current version of the password hashing algorithm.
PWDENCRYPT is an older function and might not be supported in a future release of [!INCLUDEssNoVersion]. Use HASHBYTES instead. HASHBYTES provides more hashing algorithms.
:::image type="icon" source="../../includes/media/topic-link-icon.svg" border="false"::: Transact-SQL syntax conventions
PWDENCRYPT ( 'password' )
password
Is the password to be encrypted. password is sysname.
varbinary(128)
PWDENCRYPT is available to public.