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For years, Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS) has used two tools—OSTRESS and Read80Trace—to simulate scenarios and analyze large SQL Server trace files for its customers. At the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) 2004 conference, PSS released these tools to the public. SQL Server DBAs and developers w... |
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I am curious in devoloping my own Simple Hashing mechanism .
I would like to know some math functions that are irreversible .
I know that raised to function and modulus are some function that are irreversible in the sense that the reverse procedure gives two answers
For eg:- square root(4) ... |
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