Convert HashBytes to VarChar

Question

I want to get the MD5 Hash of a string value in SQL Server 2005. I do this with the following command:

SELECT HashBytes(\'MD5\', \'HelloWorld\')

Answer 1

I have found the solution else where:

SELECT SUBSTRING(master.dbo.fn_varbintohexstr(HashBytes('MD5', 'HelloWorld')), 3, 32)