A puzzling situation (my T-SQL Tuesday entry). This entry is an actual puzzle. Here I’m asking you to do the impossible (or at least the computationally difficult). Solve for ???:
Good luck
Solution next week.
BTW, Don’t even try to attack this using a brute force approach. Even if you could test 1000 values a millisecond it would take like a whole decade to crack it.
do you have text version of the tsql above? If not, I’ll type what i see.
Comment by Rajib Bahar — January 12, 2010 @ 11:05 am
Sure here you go:
--visit: http:/www.michaeljswart.com/???.jpgDECLARE @big BIGINT = ???
SELECT hashbytes('MD5', CONVERT(NVARCHAR ( 15 ) ,@big)) AS big_hashed
/*
big_hashed
0x61B82A23F75874A88FCC096ED623D563
*/
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Hi,
I have forwarded your post to my friends and UG members. Let us see!
Couple of people called and they said it is really difficult.
Kind Regards,
Pinal
Comment by Pinal Dave — January 18, 2010 @ 5:36 am
Thanks for spreading the word.
Comment by Michael J. Swart — January 18, 2010 @ 3:33 pm
This puzzle is the most frustrating (albeit intriguing) damn thing I’ve encountered in a while.
But I’m determined. I’ll solve it even if it takes me an entire decade!
–Brad
Comment by Brad Schulz — January 18, 2010 @ 4:23 pm
All right. All right.
Congrats Brad. Winner.
I’ll post a link to a solution within a day.
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