Deprecate TIMESTAMP (the keyword, not ROWVERSION itself) by AaronBertrand

If we can't deprecate this synonym for ROWVERSION, then we need to get better at telling the story that this data type does not store any date or time information. I am constantly coming across users who do this:

CREATE TABLE dbo.foo
(
bar INT,
[timestamp] TIMESTAMP
);

And then expect to do:

INSERT dbo.foo SELECT 1, GETDATE();

This unfortunately named synonym needs to be phased out, because users are not getting any smarter about it.