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)