SQL SERVER Data Type Cheat Sheet

Data Category Data Type Size Value Range

Bit 1 1, 0, or NULL.
Tinyint 1 0 to 255
Smallint 2 -2^15 (-32,768) to 2^15-1 (32,767)
Int 4 -2^31 (-2,147,483,648) to 2^31-1 (2,147,483,647)
-2^63 (-9,223,372,036,854,775,808) to 2^63-1
Exact numeric Bigint 8
(9,223,372,036,854,775,807)
Smallmoney 4 - 214,748.3648 to 214,748.3647
Money 8 -922,337,203,685,477.5808 to 922,337,203,685,477.5807
numeric[ (p[ ,s] )] 5-17
decimal [ (p[ ,s] )] 5-17
Float 4-8 - 1.79E+308 to -2.23E-308, 0 and 2.23E-308 to 1.79E+308
Approximate numeric
Real/float(24) 4 - 3.40E + 38 to -1.18E - 38, 0 and 1.18E - 38 to 3.40E + 38
char [ ( N ) ] N N = 1 to 8000 non-Unicode characters bytes
N or N = 1 to 8000 non-Unicode characters bytes
Character strings varchar [ ( N or max ) ]
2^31-1 Max = 2^31-1 bytes (2 GB) non-Unicode characters bytes
Text 2^31-1 1 to 2^31-1 (2,147,483,647) non-Unicode characters bytes
nchar [ ( N ) ] N N = 1 to 4000 UNICODE UCS-2 bytes
N or N = 1 to 4000 UNICODE UCS-2 bytes
Unicode character strings nvarchar [ ( N | max ) ]
2^31-1 1 to 2^31-1 (2,147,483,647) UNICODE UCS-2 bytes
Ntext 2^30-1 Maximum size 2^30 - 1 (1,073,741,823) bytes
binary [ ( N ) ] N N = 1 to 8000 bytes
N or N = 1 to 8000 bytes
Binary strings varbinary [ ( N | max) ]
2^31-1 Max = 0 to 2^31-1 bytes
Image 2^31-1 0 to 2^31-1 (2,147,483,647) bytes
Uniqueidentifier 16 xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx (hex decimal)
Timestamp 8 binary(8) or varbinary(8)
rowversion 8 binary(8) or varbinary(8)
xml 2^31-1 xml( [ CONTENT | DOCUMENT ] xml_schema_collection )
Other data types sql_variant 8016 data type that stores values of various SQL Server-supported data types
Hierarchyid 892 6*logAn bits where n is child node
Cursor
Table
Sysname 256
Date 3 0001-01-01 through 9999-12-31
time [ (fractional second
3 to 5 00:00:00.0000000 through 23:59:59.9999999
precision) ]
Date: 1900-01-01 through 2079-06-06
Smalldatetime 4
Time: 00:00:00 through 23:59:59
Date: January 1, 1753, through December 31, 9999
Date and time Datetime 8
Time: 00:00:00 through 23:59:59.997
datetime2 [ (fractional Date: 0001-01-01 through 9999-12-31
6 to 8
seconds precision) ] Time: 00:00:00 through 23:59:59.9999999
Date: 0001-01-01 through 9999-12-31
datetimeoffset [ (fractional
8 to 10 Time: 00:00:00 through 23:59:59.9999999
seconds precision) ]
Time zone offset: -14:00 through +14:00
Geography 2^31-1
Spatial
Geometry 2^31-1

Note: text, ntext, image and timestamp data type will be removed from future version.

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