• gbritton1 (4/17/2014)


    Something to consider:

    select datediff(m, '0001-01-01', '9999-12-31')

    returns 119987

    That is the largest difference in minutes between the earliest and latest dates handled by SQL Server. The earliest date it can store is Jan 1 1753, IIRC.

    Is 1397750400000 the minute of the Big Bang or something like that?

    the "m" is MONTH not minute, the shorthand for minute is mi or n. That's why I always spell out the full identifier: MONTH, YEAR, DAY, MINUTE, HOUR, SECOND, MILLISECOND instead of the abbreviation.