DateTimeTicks SQL Function
The DateTimeTicks() function takes zero (0) argument and returns number of ticks which are number of 100-nanosecond intervals
that have elapsed since 12:00:00 midnight, January 1, 0001 (0:00:00 UTC on January 1, 0001, in the Gregorian calendar). A single tick represents one hundred nanoseconds or one ten-millionth of a second.
There are 10,000 ticks in a millisecond, or 10 million ticks in a second.
It's Syntax is simple DateTimeTicks()
/* Following will output long numeric value */
SELECT DateTimeTicks();
Many programs uses it to be precise for datetime value or as primary key.