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Monday, November 05, 2007

SQL Server 2008 Date and Time data types

No more converting datetimes and combining datetimes together because you wanted to seperate date and time. (EX: '1/1/1900 11:36AM')

Here are the new data types for SQL Server 2008:










































Data typeFormatRangeAccuracy
timehh:mm:ss[.nnnnnnn]00:00:00.0000000 through 23:59:59.9999999100 nanoseconds
dateYYYY-MM-DD00001-01-01 through 9999-12-311 day
smalldatetimeYYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss1900-01-01 through 2079-06-061 minute
datetime YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss[.nnn]1753-01-01 through 9999-12-310.333 second
datetime2YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss[.nnnnnnn] 0001-01-01 00:00:00.0000000 through 9999-12-31 23:59:59.9999999100 nanoseconds
datetimeoffsetYYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss[.nnnnnnn] [+-]hh:mm00001-01-01 00:00:00.0000000 through 9999-12-31 23:59:59.9999999 (in UTC)100 nanoseconds


Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2007/11/05/get-a-date.aspx

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