How to update a varbinary field with a specific value?

Question

Basically I am trying to give a user a certain password so I can test some functionality on a system, as I only have our admin account and I can\'t play with that I am just

Answer 1

Since you are using 2008, try this:

UPDATE dbo.Login 
SET 
    Salt=CAST('bPftidzyAQik' AS VARBINARY),   
    Password=CONVERT(VARBINARY(MAX), '0x2B89C2954E18E15759545A421D243E251784FA009E46F7A163926247FDB945F85F095DBB1FFF5B2B43A6ADAE27B8C46E176902412C4F8943E39528FF94E0DD5B', 1) 
WHERE LoginID=10947 

(http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqltips/archive/2008/07/02/converting-from-hex-string-to-varbinary-and-vice-versa.aspx)