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    Data types (Transact-SQL)

    09/13/ 2017  2 minutes to read Contributors


       

     

     

     

     

    THIS TOPIC APPLIES TO:  SQL Server (starting with 2008) Azure SQL Database
    Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Parallel Data Warehouse

    In SQL Server, each column, local variable, expression, and parameter has a related data
    type. A data type is an attribute that specifies the type of data that the object can hold:
    integer data, character data, monetary data, date and time data, binary strings, and so
    on.

    SQL Server supplies a set of system data types that define all the types of data that can
    be used with SQL Server. You can also define your own data types in Transact-SQL or
    the Microsoft .NET Framework. Alias data types are based on the system-supplied data
    types. For more information about alias data types, see CREATE TYPE (Transact-SQL).
    User-defined types obtain their characteristics from the methods and operators of a
    class that you create by using one of the programming languages support by the .NET
    Framework.

    When two expressions that have different data types, collations, precision, scale, or
    length are combined by an operator, the characteristics of result are determined by the
    following:

     The data type of the result is determined by applying the rules of data type
    precedence to the data types of the input expressions. For more information,
    see Data Type Precedence (Transact-SQL).
     The collation of the result is determined by the rules of collation precedence
    when the result data type is char, varchar, text, nchar, nvarchar, or ntext. For
    more information, see Collation Precedence (Transact-SQL).
     The precision, scale, and length of the result depend on the precision, scale, and
    length of the input expressions. For more information, see Precision, Scale, and
    Length (Transact-SQL).

    SQL Server provides data type synonyms for ISO compatibility. For more information,
    see Data Type Synonyms (Transact-SQL).

    Data type categories


    Data types in SQL Server are organized into the following categories:

    Exact numerics Unicode character strings

    Approximate numerics Binary strings

    Date and time Other data types

    Character strings

    In SQL Server, based on their storage characteristics, some data types are designated as
    belonging to the following groups:

     Large value data types: varchar(max), and nvarchar(max)


     Large object data types: text, ntext, image, varbinary(max), and xml
    Note
    sp_help returns -1 as the length for the large-value and xml data types.

    Exact numerics

    bigint numeric

    bit smallint

    decimal smallmoney
    int tinyint

    money

    Approximate numerics

    float real

    Date and time

    date datetimeoffset

    datetime2 smalldatetime

    datetime time

    Character strings

    char varchar

    text

    Unicode character strings

    nchar nvarchar

    ntext

    Binary strings

    binary varbinary
    image

    Other data types

    cursor rowversion

    hierarchyid uniqueidentifier

    sql_variant xml

    Spatial Geometry Types Spatial Geography Types

    table

    See also
    CREATE PROCEDURE (Transact-SQL)
    CREATE TABLE (Transact-SQL)
    DECLARE @local_variable (Transact-SQL) EXECUTE (Transact-SQL)
    Expressions (Transact-SQL)
    Functions (Transact-SQL)
    LIKE (Transact-SQL)
    sp_droptype (Transact-SQL)
    sp_help (Transact-SQL)
    sp_rename (Transact-SQL)

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