SQL SERVER – Data types
Data types in SQL Server
VARCHAR(n) Character string of variable length with maximum length n
VARCHAR(MAX) Character string of variable length with maximum length can exceed 8000 byes
NCHAR(n) Fixed-length Unicode string data where n defines the string length and must be a value from 1 through 4,000
NVARCHAR(n) Variable length Unicode string data where n defines the string length and must be a value from 1 through 4,000
NVARCHAR(MAX) Variable length Unicode string data where MAX indicates that the maximum storage size is 2^31-1 bytes (2 GB)
BINARY(n) Binary string of fixed length n
BOOLEAN It stores TRUE or FALSE values
VARBINARY(n) Binary string of variable length with maximum length n
NTEXT Variable-length Unicode data with a maximum string length of 2^30 – 1 (1,073,741,823) bytes
TEXT Variable-length non-Unicode data in the code page of the server and with a maximum string length of 2^31-1 (2,147,483,647)
IMAGE Variable-length binary data from 0 through 2^31-1 (2,147,483,647) bytes.
INTEGER Or Int A 32-bit signed integer value having range of INTEGER is -2147483648 to 2147483647
SMALLINT A 16-bit signed integer value having range of SMALLINT is -32768 to 32767.
BIGINT A 64-bit signed integer value having range of BIGINT is -9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807
DECIMAL(p,s) Exact numerical, precision p, scale s. For Example, Decimal(5,3) means 22.212
NUMERIC(p,s) Exact numerical, precision p, scale s. (Same as DECIMAL)
REAL Approximate numerical, mantissa precision 7
FLOAT Approximate numerical, mantissa precision 16
DOUBLE Approximate numerical, mantissa precision 16
DATE It stores year/month/day values
TIME It stores hour/minute/second values
TIMESTAMP It stores year/month/day/hour/minute/second values
XML It stores XML data
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