Element ranges YYYY is a four-digit number, ranging from 0001 through 9999, that represents a year. MM is a two-digit number, ranging from 01 to 12, that represents a month in the specified year. DD ...

Defines a date that is combined with a time of day that is based on 24-hour clock. datetime2 can be considered as an extension of the existing datetime type that has a larger date range, a larger ...

How SQL Server Stores DATETIME2, DATE, and TIME In the previous post I took a DATETIME apart byte by byte: two 4-byte integers, a date counted from 1900 and a time counted in awkward three-hundredths ...

My favourite fact about storing dates and times in SQL Server is that DATETIME2(3) uses 7 bytes instead of the 8 bytes DATETIME uses, and has millisecond accuracy versus the 3-ms accuracy of DATETIME.

Building on the DATETIMEFROMPARTS, DATETIME2FROMPARTS offers similar functionality, but yields more precise DateTime2 data type, containing fractions of a second to a specified precision. Naturally, ...