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Question Inserting Date into MS SQL - Data type to use?
Hello everyone, I am wondering what is the best to use. I am inserting a date... not a date & time so was wondering what would be easier... using a varchar for the date or using the datetime data type.

I have to do error checking anyways so why not just use a varchar. Does a varchar use more space (bytes) than datetime or is there a good reason to use it in my case?

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P.S. Also I am storing the time seperate from the date which is partly why I am asking this. Should I grab the date & time and store them together?
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Use datetime. To format the date, use the convert function.
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ok that is good enough for me...

is there any outstanding reason for this... I mean I have read up on the values of using the correct data types but not much is said about the datetime and why it should be used.

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