Learn how to create, insert, query, and choose between DATE and DATETIME data types in SQL, and understand their advantages and disadvantages.

Each datetime data type has its own means for determining the length of the value and for knowing what information is stored, such as day, month, minutes, seconds, fraction of a second, etc.

If you try an insert with bulk (table) where the data value is say a string (even if valid date format string but note a Date) and the schema is sql.DateTime the request will hang. Not a big worry, ...