In SQL Server, data types define the kind of data that can be stored in a column. For example, integers are stored using the INT data type, while strings may use VARCHAR or NVARCHAR .

According to ODBC documentation, ODBC supports the SQL 2008+ types like datetime2, date, time and datetimeoffset.. But it seems impossible to use them with System.Data.Odbc available on MyGet since ...

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Datetimes. Data types that have values representing times or dates are referred to as datetimes. Each datetime data type has its own means for determining the length of the value and for knowing ...

It’s surprisingly easy to stop query folding happening in Power Query by changing the data type of a column. This is mentioned in the docs here, and it’s something several people have blogged about ...

This post adds one more useful detail: how to preserve the original data types of the columns in your query when using this technique with SQL Server-related sources. Consider the DimDate table in the ...

SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP introduces two new widely advertised kinds of database objects: memory-optimized tables for efficient data access, and natively compiled stored procedures for efficient ...