description: "Transact-SQL reference for int, bigint, smallint, and tinyint data types. These data types are used to represent integer data." [!INCLUDE [sql-asdb ...

SQL is a widely-used programming language for computer databases in business. Frequently, software developers need to combine different kinds of data, such as integer and character fields, into a ...

Quite often in my practice, I see people use varchar fields with a small and limited number of available options. Let's check out today what field data type is better and will be the best approach for ...

The SQL specification only defines SMALLINT and INT with implementation defined precision. The only constraint is that both have precision, that precision is of the same type, and SMALLINT <= INT.