DataTypes

External Article

The Many Benefits of Money…Data Type!

  • Article

Our initial reason for looking at the money data type can be found within the Precision Considerations for Analysis Services Users white paper. In this white paper, we provide extensive examples of the types of precision issues when your SQL relational data source and your Microsoft® SQL Server® Analysis Services cube have different non-matching data types (e.g., if you query one way you get the value 304253.3251, but run the query in another way and you get the value 304253.325100001).

2008-10-02

2,761 reads

SQLServerCentral Article

Reverse Engineering Alias Data Types in SQL Server 2000

  • Article

In SQL Server 2005 there is the concept of alias data types, which are similar to user-defined data types in SQL Server 2000. Yakov Shlafman brings us the first part of a series looking at these structures in SQL Server 2000.

5 (1)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2008-05-30 (first published: )

6,748 reads

SQLServerCentral Article

Unique Identifier: Usage and Limitations

  • Article

The Unique Identifier datatype in SQL Server has tremendous potential to solve many of the issues one finds with Identity fields, other primary keys, etc. However it also has some drawbacks and limitations. Author Sharad Nandwani looks at some of the pros and cons of this datatype.

4 (1)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2004-06-24

14,024 reads

Blogs

Measuring What Matters: Operationalizing Data Trust for CDOs

By

Trust is the currency of the data economy. Without it, even the most advanced...

A Small LLM Fail

By

Another test with Copilot in SSMS (v22 P3) that didn’t go so well. This...

SQL Server Versions: Out With the Old, In With the Supported

By

If your production SQL Servers are still running 2016 (or older) you’re basically banking...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs

By Nisarg Upadhyay

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...

SQL Server Ghosts

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server Ghosts

The Selfish Case for Learning AI

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Selfish Case for Learning...

Visit the forum

Question of the Day

SQL Server Ghosts

For Halloween, what are ghost records?

See possible answers