I'd second this; it's my understanding that concatenating a fixed string as salt (in Steve's example assigned to a variable) to another string can't be considered a salt parameter, which should be a random value (for increased security). The following query will return the exact same results as Steve's proposed solution in the 'Correct Answer' section of this QotD :cool::

declare @t nvarchar(200)

select @t = N'This is my string'

select

Hashbytes('SHA1', @t)

, Hashbytes('SHA1', @T + N'R@nd0mS!a6lTValue')

I'd say, no matter how many string parts are concatenated, the combined string qualifies as { @input | 'input' } following the HASHBYTES syntax.

Interesting question, though.

Thanks,

Michael