... @Order_Date datetime Note Besides the standard SQL Server data types, such as nchar, int, and datetime, you can also declare and create a Table datatype. You will see an example of this in How-To ... with the variable name, and the data type. You can see an example of the variable declaration here, where nchar, with the length and datetime variables, is declared. DECLARE @Cust_Id nchar(5), ... found later in this chapter. After you have declared the variables, you need to initialize them before you can use them. Initialing Local Variables in T-SQL To initialize the variables,...