Is there an analog of GETDATE() that returns DATETIME2 According to MSDN, Getdate(), GetUtcDate(), and CURRENT_TIMESTAMP all return DATETIME. I ran a short test, which confirms that:

CREATE TABLE #t(T DATETIME2(7));
GO

DECLARE @i INT ;
SET @i=1;

WHILE @i&lt;10000 BEGIN ;
INSERT #t VALUES(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) ;
SET @i=@i+1;
END ;

SELECT DISTINCT t 
FROM #t 
ORDER BY t ;

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2013-01-28 13:23:19.4930000
2013-01-28 13:23:19.4970000
2013-01-28 13:23:19.5000000
2013-01-28 13:23:19.5030000
2013-01-28 13:23:19.5070000
2013-01-28 13:23:19.5100000
2013-01-28 13:23:19.5130000


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Is there a similar function that returns DATETIME2(7)?
SYSDATETIME returns a DATETIME2 object.

CREATE TABLE #t(T DATETIME2(7));
GO

DECLARE @i INT ;
SET @i=1;

WHILE @i&lt;10000 BEGIN ;
INSERT #t VALUES(SYSDATETIME()) ;
SET @i=@i+1;
END ;

SELECT DISTINCT t 
FROM #t 
ORDER BY t ;



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