What is the mysterious 'timestamp' datatype in Sybase?
I recently discovered a table in our Sybase database at work that uses a column of a type 'timestamp'. If I create a table using this mysterious timestamp datatype like this create table dropme ( foo timestamp, roo int null ) insert into dropme (roo) values(123) insert into dropme (roo) values(122) insert into dropme (roo) values(121) select * from dropme go I get the following from 'select * from dropme': foo roo -------------------- ----------- 0x000100000e1ce4ea 123 0x000100000e1ce4ed 122 0x000100000e1ce509 121 0x000100000e1ce4ea does not look very timestampy to me. Also, I see this output