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High precision date/time stamp in SQL Server 2005
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15/03/2011 11:35:30
Mike Cole
Yellow Lab Technologies
Stanley, Iowa, United States
 
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Forum:
Microsoft SQL Server
Category:
Database design
Environment versions
SQL Server:
SQL Server 2005
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01503716
Message ID:
01503724
Views:
45
>>I have bulk records that are getting imported into a SQL Server 2005 table. I need to be able to maintain the same order that they were imported. I was using a DateTime field and populating it to GETDATE(), but that wasn't precise enough.
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>>Any advice out there?
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>In SQL Server 2005 there is no date types with high precision. There are several in SQL Server 2008 (DateTime2).

Any other ideas? I received a recommendation elsewhere to rely on the autoincrementing identity column, but I've always believed that to be bad practice.
Very fitting: http://xkcd.com/386/
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