That was the question from SSP forums asking about the internal representation of data types in SQL Server. Here is further explanation for that questions where I picked up new information too. Back to the basics, that all the data that needs to be stored...
First one in the series of SQL Server 2008 version, here it comes Cumulative Update package 1! What kind of fixtures are available in this CU1 package? Cumulative Update 1 contains hotfixes for the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 issues that have been fixed...