SHA1

A function used to calculate the SHA-1 hash of a data value. The hash will be returned as a hex-encoded string.

Parameter	Type
`value_to_hash`	any

Returns: string

query:

SELECT name, SHA1(name)
  FROM employees
 ORDER BY name
 LIMIT 1

results:

name	sha1
Anna Snelling	f5f354d184d527215ac3668f6973c8bac3c477a81