nimdil (8/19/2009)

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That's the whole point. Some IP addresses will map to negative integers. As there are 2^32 IP Addresses and 2^31 non-negative integers in SQL Server we have to use...

Nice article. Very informative.

But at the final function where 128 is subtracted from the result of ParseName, before being multiplied by 16777216 (2^24), could potentially yield negative results, if the...