title: How to create a mysql "sha-256" column?
body: <p>For a password column, is there a mysql feature to store password hashed with "sha-256"? Or should I hash it from java code (like <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5531455/how-to-encode-some-string-with-sha256-in-java?rq=1">How to hash some string with sha256 in Java?</a> ) before I store it in database and then hash the password input every time and compare with the database column value to authenticate?</p>
  
  <p>TIA.</p>