See the section of the documentation on the password function.
Insert into users (username, password) values
('joesmith',password('somepassword'));
It will encrypt your passords. then you select using the same function.
select username, password from users where username = 'joesmith' and
password('enteredpassword') = password
HTH
Curtis
Muhammad Farhan Ghazi wrote:
> How one can make a field encrypted in a table, so that it cannot even be
> seen using the select statement? I have a field in which I'm storing
> passwords and I don't want it to be visible.
>
> Ghazi, Muhammad Farhan
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