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Combine DATE and TIME to DATETIME2 in SQL Server

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The most common method on the internet for combining DATE and TIME columns in SQL Server is incorrect. This article demonstrates why that and other methods are incorrect and two lesser known high performance methods that produce correct results even for the "edge cases".

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BIT_COUNT() III

In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:

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