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Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed
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Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed

by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1704 pages
111h 8m
English
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New date and time Data Types and Functions

SQL Server 2008 introduces four new date and time data types:

date

time (precision)

datetime2 (precision)

datetimeoffset (precision)

Two of the most welcome of these new types are the new date and time data types. These new data types allow you to store date-only and time-only values. In previous versions of SQL Server, the datetime and smalldatetime data types were the only available types for storing date or time values, and they always store both the date and time. This made date-only or time-only comparisons tricky at times because you always had to account for the other component (for more detailed examples on working with datetime values in SQL Server, see Chapter 43). In addition, the ...

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