State some new data types in SQL Server 2008 ?

New Data types in SQL Server 2008 are :

  1. DATE - occupies 3 bytes . Has accuracy of 1 day . Data stored in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format
  2. TIME - occupies 3 to 5 bytes . Has accuracy of 100 nanoseconds. Data stored in 'hh:mm:ss.nnnnnnn' format.
  3. DATETIME2 - occupies 6 to 8 bytes . Has accuracy of 100 nanoseconds. Data stored in 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.nnnnnnn' format.
  4. DATETIMEOFFSET - occupies 8 to 10 bytes . Has accuracy of 100 nanoseconds. Data stored in 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.nnnnnnn [+|-]hh:mm' format. The DATETIMEOFFSET data type is similar to DATETIME2 but has time zone component extra.


 

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