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Not having done this, I would say yes.  I base this on how I upgraded mirrored databases.

Also, the MD5 hash is a 16 byte value.  Don't count the leading 0x.  You can change the VARBINARY(40) to VARBINARY(16) and hashbytes returns the same value.  So, there may...

But I can see why you thought that, my mind was working faster than my fingers, access should have been accessing in my first response.

If your company doesn't allow it, get the powers that can to obtain it for your users.

SQL Server Management Studio is a separate download and not included with...

I didn't say you were using Access.  You can download and use SQL Server Management Studio v17.4 and use it to access your SQL Server 2016 database servers and databases. ...