hash_md5()

Returns an MD5 hash value of the input.

Syntax

hash_md5(source)

Parameters

Returns

The MD5 hash value of the given scalar, encoded as a hex string (a string of characters, each two of which represent a single Hex number between 0 and 255).

Examples

print 
h1=hash_md5("World"),
h2=hash_md5(datetime(2020-01-01))

Output

The following example uses the hash_md5() function to aggregate StormEvents based on State’s MD5 hash value.

StormEvents
| summarize StormCount = count() by State, StateHash=hash_md5(State)
| top 5 by StormCount

Output