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You develop a database for a travel application. You need to design tables and other database objects.
You create the Historical_Events table.
You need to store dates by using the smallest possible storage size.
What should you do?
A . Use the CAST function.
B . Use the DATE data type.
C . Use the FORMAT function.
D . Use an appropriate collation.
E . Use a user-defined table type.
F . Use the VARBINARY data type.
G . Use the DATETIME data type.
H . Use the DATETIME2 data type.
. Use the DATETIMEOFFSET data type.
. Use the TODATETIMEOFFSET function.
Answer: B
Explanation:
The size of a column with the DATE format is 3 bytes fixed.