I'm guessing it's because the password is actually a binary hash or
encrypted version of the password. It would probably make more sense to use
a BINARY/VARBINARY column though.

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"Jason Huang" <JasonHuang8888@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> In my SQL Server 2000, I have a Table MyUser which has one colum PassWord,
> and the PassWord's datatype is Image. I'm wondering how can a password be
> an image.
> Thanks for help.
>
> Jason
>