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Author Where is rowversion data type
dbuchanan52@hotmail.com

2005-03-31, 7:01 am

Books on SQL Server 2000 tell me to use the 'rowversion' datatype
instead of the 'timestamp' datatype. 'Rowversion' is not available in
the table designer and it tells me I must pick from the list if I enter
'rowversion' in by hand. Can someone shed some light on this for me.

Uri Dimant

2005-03-31, 7:01 am

Hi
It is confusing lots of people here. Actually ,timestamp is a 'rowversion'
which is binary datatype and has nothing to do with date and times.




<dbuchanan52@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Books on SQL Server 2000 tell me to use the 'rowversion' datatype
> instead of the 'timestamp' datatype. 'Rowversion' is not available in
> the table designer and it tells me I must pick from the list if I enter
> 'rowversion' in by hand. Can someone shed some light on this for me.
>



David Portas

2005-03-31, 7:01 am

Another reason not to use the table designer then. There's no problem
specifying the ROWVERSION type using TSQL in Query Analyzer.

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David Portas
SQL Server MVP
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