SQL Server 2008 Will Have 7 New Datatypes

SQL Server 2008 New Datatypes

DATE - ANSI-compliant date data type
TIME - ANSI-compliant time data type with variable precision
DATETIMEOFFSET - timezone aware/preserved datetime
DATETIME2 - like DATETIME, but with variable precision and large date range

GEOMETRY - "flat earth" spatial data type
GEOGRAPHY - "round earth" spatial data type
HIERARCHYID - represents hierarchies using path enumeration model

The first four datatypes are regular SQL datatypes but the last three datatypes are exposed as .NET system UDTs.

Note: none of these are in the current June CTP