Name
DECODE( )
Synopsis
DECODE(encrypted, password
)
This function decrypts a given string that was encrypted with a given password.
SELECT ENCODE(pwd, 'oreilly') FROM teachers WHERE teacher_id = '730522';
This
function decrypts the contents of the pwd column
and unlocks it using the oreilly password, which
was used to encrypt it originally using ENCODE( )
.
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