V S P wrote:
I would like to have a function
given a user id varchar(64) to get a hash number between 0 and 255.
I first tried md5 but the number it returns is very big and cannot
be converted to an INT
there is likely a way to simply add ascii values of the userId together
to get a small integer, but wanted to know if there are any other
'built-in' ways
this is to get the database id based on user id.
maybe take the last byte (2 chars) of the md5, and convert to integer?
something like....
get_byte(decode(md5(id),'hex'),16)
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