What are the differences between CHECKSUM() and BINARY_CHECKSUM() and when/what are the appropriate usage scenarios?

Question

Again MSDN does not really explain in plain English the exact difference, or the information for when to choose one over the other.

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Answer 1

Its easy to get collisions from CHECKSUM(). HASHBYTES() was added in SQL 2005 to enhance SQL Server's system hash functionality so I suggest you also look into this as an alternative.