Should I use smallint or numeric(4,0) to store a year in SQL Server
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I have a limited amount of RAM available on my server. I've read about using smallint to store a year here but I was wondering if using a fixed precision number would be better on Microsoft SQL Server.
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2 ACCPTED 2015-07-30 14:51:09
Your data type will take up storage space, not RAM. Smallint ranges from -2^15 (-32,768) to 2^15-1 (32,767) so that would probably satisfy your need.
You can see the difference in bytes between decimal/numeric , float/real , and the various ints on MSDN.
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