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    Data types (Transact-SQL)

    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

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