[pimeys]

And datetime2 was introduced in mssql 2008… So 12 years ago.

Of course when maintaining the rust crate for mssql, implementing support for these old types was necessary and I had some wtf moments. Another interesting one is the smalldatetime, and the biggest annoyance the division to varchar and nvarchar -- the n-variants of cource using ucs2 to store the data.

This only changed in the 2019 version, where one can use varchar to store utf8 data with a special collation.

Still prefer mssql over mysql, any day.