SQL Data Types | Data Types in SQL Server 2018

1. SQL Data Types

In our last SQL tutorial , we discussed SQL Operators . Today, we will see SQL Data Types. First, we will look at what is the data type in SQL. Moreover, we will discuss SQL general data type and 6 majorly use SQL server data types.

So, let’s start SQL Data Types.

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SQL Data Types | Data Types in SQL Server 2018

2. What is Data Type in SQL?

Each column in a very database table is needed to possess a name and a data type. SQL developers ought to decide what types of data are going to be kept within every and each table column once making a SQL table. The type may be a label and a tenet for SQL to know what variety of data is anticipated within every column, and it additionally identifies. However, SQL can act with the keep data.

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3. SQL General Data Types

Following are some General SQL Data Types and their description:

Data Type Description CHARACTER(n) Character string with fixed length n VARCHAR(n) or CHARACTER VARYING(n) It is character string with fixed maximum variable length n BINARY(n) It is a binary string with a fixed length BOOLEAN This stores TRUE or FALSE values. VARBINARY(n) or BINARY VARYING(n) It is a binary string with fixed variable length n. INTEGER(p) It is an integer numerical with no decimal, here p is precision SMALLINT It is also an integer numerical with no decimal and precision 5 INTEGER It is the same as the mentioned above types with the only difference of precision 10 BIGINT Here precision is 19 DECIMAL(p,s) It is an exact numerical with precision p and scale s NUMERIC(p,s) It is an exact numerical with numerical with precision p and scale s FLOAT It is an approximate numerical with mantissa precision 16 REAL It is an approximate numerical with mantissa precision 7 FLOAT(p) It is an approximate numerical with mantissa precision p, in this type a single precision is mentioned which specifies the minimum value. DOUBLE PRECISION It is an approximate numerical with mantissa precision 16 DATE It stores the value for a date, time and the days TIME It stores the value of seconds, minutes and hours ARRAY It stores the value of seconds, minutes, hours, months and years MULTISET It is an unordered collection of elements of variable length XML This stores XML data TIMESTAMP An ordered collection of data with a set length INTERVAL It represents a period of time, which depends on the interval time and is composed of integer fields

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TINYTEXT Holds a string with a most extreme length of 255 characters TEXT Holds a string with a most extreme length of 65,535 characters BLOB For BLOBs (Binary Large Object). Holds up to 65,535 bytes of information MEDIUMTEXT Holds a string with a most extreme length of 16,777,215 characters MEDIUMBLOB For BLOBs (Binary Large Object). It holds up to 16,777,215 bytes of information LONGTEXT Holds a string with a most extreme length of 4,294,967,295 characters LONGBLOB For BLOBs (Binary Large Object). Holds up to 4,294,967,295 bytes of information ENUM(x,y,z,etc.) Let you enter a rundown of conceivable qualities. You can list up to 65535 qualities in an ENUM list. In the event that an esteem is embedded, that isn’t in the rundown, a clear esteem will be embedded. SET Similar to ENUM with the exception of that SET may contain up to 64 list things and can store in excess of one decision 4. SQL Server Data Types

SQL server offers 6 types of data types. Let’s discuss them one by one:

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SQL Server Data Types

a. Exact numeric data type SQL bigint -9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 int -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647 smallint -32,768 to 32,767 tinyint 0 to 255 bit 0 to 1 decimal -10^38 +1 to 10^38 -1 numeric -10^38 +1 to 10^38 -1 money -922,337,203,685,477.5808 to +922,337,203,685,477.5807 smallmoney -214,748.3648 to +214,748.3647 b. Approximate Numeric Data Types float -1.79E + 308 to 1.79E + 308 real -3.40E + 38 to 3.40E + 38 c. Date and Time SQL Data Types datetime smalldatetime date time d. Character Strings Data Types char varchar varchar(max) text e. Unicode Character Strings Data Types nchar nvarchar