What are the different data types available in SQL Server?
Numeric: Stores numeric values. Monetary: It stores numeric values with decimal places. It is used specially for currency values. Data and Time: It stores date and time information. Character: It supports character based values of varying lengths. Binary: It stores data in strict binary (0 or 1) Representation. Special purpose: SQL Server contains Complex data types to handle the XML Documents, Globally unique identifiers etc. What are the specialized data types in SQL Server? bit :Stores a 0, 1, or null. Used for basic “flag” values. TRUE is converted to 1, and FALSE is converted to 0. Timestamp: An automatically generated value. Each database contains an internal counter that designates a relative time counter not associated with an actual clock. A table can have only one time stamp column, which is set to the database timestamp when the row is inserted or modified. Uniqueidentifier: A 16-bit GUID used to globally identify a row across databases, instances, and servers. sql_variant: