Difference Between GETDATE and SYSDATETIME

Sometime something so simple skips our mind. I never knew the difference between GETDATE and SYSDATETIME. I just ran simple query as following and realized the difference.

SELECT GETDATE() fn_GetDate, SYSDATETIME() fn_SysDateTime

In case of GETDATE the precision is till miliseconds and in case of SYSDATETIME the precision is till nanoseconds.

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