Shelley Doll finishes her coverage of SQL data types with an overview of datetime and interval data types. Learn more about the basic syntax of these standard SQL types.

To this effect, they have introduced the HierarchId data type in SQL Server 2008. In traditional hierarchies, a row merely stores a reference to its parent node.

JSON data is stored as plain text and isn't considered a special type, such as XML and Spatial. However, this just enables you to use JSON columns in any SQL Server objects right away. The same can't ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs.

SQL Server 2008 R2 gave us data-tier applications ("DACs") and yet another Visual Studio project type All these database project types can get pretty confusing. And the funny part is that you're still ...