# CRC32C

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`CRC32C` is available from MariaDB [10.8](/docs/release-notes/community-server/old-releases/10.8/what-is-mariadb-108.md).
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`CRC32C` is used to compute a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) value using the Castagnoli polynomial.

## Syntax

```sql
CRC32C([par,]expr)
```

## Description

MariaDB has always included a native unary function [CRC32()](/docs/server/reference/sql-functions/numeric-functions/crc32.md) that computes the CRC-32 of a string using the ISO 3309 polynomial that used by zlib and many others.

InnoDB and MyRocks use a different polynomial, which was implemented in SSE4.2 instructions that were introduced in the Intel Nehalem microarchitecture. This is commonly called CRC-32C (Castagnoli).

The CRC32C function uses the Castagnoli polynomial.

This allows `SELECT…INTO DUMPFILE` to be used for the creation of files with valid checksums, such as a logically empty InnoDB redo log file`ib_logfile0` corresponding to a particular log sequence number.

The optional parameter allows the checksum to be computed in pieces:\
CRC32C('MariaDB')=CRC32C(CRC32C('Maria'),'DB').

## Examples

```sql
SELECT CRC32C('MariaDB');
+-------------------+
| CRC32C('MariaDB') |
+-------------------+
|         809606978 |
+-------------------+

SELECT CRC32C(CRC32C('Maria'),'DB');
+------------------------------+
| CRC32C(CRC32C('Maria'),'DB') |
+------------------------------+
|                    809606978 |
+------------------------------+
```

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