• Just to point out that datetime values are NOT precise to the millisecond. Even though MS docs state that "The other 4 bytes store the time of day represented as the number of milliseconds after midnight" they also state that a datetime value represents:

    "Date and time data from January 1, 1753 through December 31, 9999, to an accuracy of one three-hundredth of a second (equivalent to 3.33 milliseconds or 0.00333 seconds). Values are rounded to increments of .000, .003, or .007 seconds" (I guess they mean the number of ms always end with 0, 3 or 7, so precision is exactly 1/300 s up to rounding the last ms.)

    Personal experience shows that the second statement is true. (I've been bitten by that !) But then, the first statement should be false, otherwise how to explain the precision loss between storage and exploitation ?