Question

I would like to know how to insert TIME into SQL Server using C#

I have a class that I use as a data layer:

    public class Main_Lom_Form
    {
        public string Specimen_ID
        public int Client_Key
        public string Outcome
        public string Medications
        public DateTime Date_Collected
        public DateTime Time_Collected

and I do not know if I should be declaring Time_Collected as DateTime?

What type should Time_Collected be so that if the time would be 13:05 it would be entered correctly into a column in SQL Server 2008 that is a TIME(7) datatype?

Answer 1

• TimeSpan maps to time(7)
• DateTime maps to datetime

If you only want to store time, then time(7) should be okay. Is there a reason why you don’t combine Date_Collected and Time_Collected into one field of type datetime?