SQL Server equivalent of MySQL's NOW()?

Question

I\'m a MySQL guy working on a SQL Server project, trying to get a datetime field to show the current time. In MySQL I\'d use NOW() but it isn\'t accepting that.

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Answer 1

SYSDATETIME() and SYSUTCDATETIME()

are the DateTime2 equivalents of

GetDate() and GetUTCDate()

which return a DateTime.

DateTime2 is now the preferred method for storing the date and time in SQL Server 2008+. See the following StackOverflow Post.