In my recent Office Hours, I received a question on how to determine the case sensitivity of the database. Let us learn about how we can Detecting Database Case Sensitive Property using fn_helpcollations().
In SQL Server 2012, there are seven new datetime functions being introduced, namely:
DATEFROMPARTS ( year, month, day)
DATETIME2FROMPARTS ( year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds, fractions, precision )
DATETIMEFROMPARTS ( year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds, milliseconds )
DATETIMEOFFSETFROMPARTS ( year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds, fractions, hour_offset, minute_offset, precision )
SMALLDATETIMEFROMPARTS ( year, month, day, hour, minute )
TIMEFROMPARTS ( hour, minute, seconds, fractions, precision )
EOMONTH ()
