Question

I have a situation which I can resolve by adding a column which would be a datetime or a ntext type.

In terms of performace, which of these would be better to use. The number of records are more than 60000. I was thinking datetime since I could index on it, but not sure if ntext can be…any suggestion or discussion on which would handle memory,speed better…or any other performance issues?

Update: the column i will add are independent- one is date time and other is text, i can resolve the issue by having anyone, NOTE: I am not trying to store datetime as ntext here.

Answer 1

60000 records is nothing for SQL Server.
So there shouldn’t be any noticeable difference. Maybe there would be a difference if it was a REALLY big table (hundreds of millions of records, and above…), but not with your amount of data.

However, as the others already said: your statement that you can either use datetime or ntext sounds very strange to me. If it’s really date and/or time values, use datetime and not ntext!!!

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EDIT:

Now that you clarified that you don’t want to store date values in a text column:
I would suggest that you use the datetime column. It’s better than ntext performance wise.

As a side note: if you prefer to use the text column, you should use nvarchar(max) instead of ntext. ntext is slower and deprecated.