Hi. First 3 paragraphs are about problem in general - this is for those who consider them well experienced and may have better ideas about how to solve this whole thing. In forth paragraph is the tehnical question.
Situation:
So me was trying to find out why files are saved in database incorrectly. First idea was to create a MD5 checksum of a file in my application and then create one with SQL script that saves data in database (data being the file, by the way).
On software side it worked fine 'cuz i'm developing in Visual Basic .NET 2005 which has a function that return a 32 byte array of hash from a data that you pass to it (like file) - GREAT!
SQL Server 2005 side - not so great. The only function that I have found so far that creates hash is HashBytes that is supposed to do it's job only there's a limintation to data size which means i cant make hash of say 4mb big file.
Problem:
So I figure maybe i could create a vb.net program that return a hash from a data passed to it and call it with SQL script (because hashbytes function doesnt work for me in case you didnt read the first 3 paragraphs)... but I don't know how
Any ideas?