Three-Byte Integers in SQL Server: Fact or Fiction?

(Bob Pusateri) I’ve been told on two occasions that the absence of the MEDIUMINT datatype is a serious shortcoming of SQL Server. If you’re not familiar with MEDIUMINT, it’s an integer type available in MySQL that consumes 3 Bytes and is capable of storing values ranging from -8,388,608 to 8,388,607

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