diff --git a/packages/sql/src/modules/type-mapping.test.ts b/packages/sql/src/modules/type-mapping.test.ts
index c0b1983c..cf5b5bb5 100644
--- a/packages/sql/src/modules/type-mapping.test.ts
+++ b/packages/sql/src/modules/type-mapping.test.ts
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ describe('cross-dialect type translation', () => {
     expect(xlate(db2, pg, 'INTEGER').sql).toBe('integer');
     expect(xlate(db2, pg, 'DECIMAL(10,2)').sql).toBe('numeric(10,2)');
     expect(xlate(db2, pg, 'CLOB').sql).toBe('text');
-    expect(xlate(db2, pg, 'TIMESTAMP').sql).toBe('timestamp');
+    expect(xlate(db2, pg, 'TIMESTAMP').sql).toBe('timestamp(6)');
     // DBCLOB has no direct Postgres type → mapped to text (no warning needed, text covers it)
     expect(xlate(db2, pg, 'DBCLOB(1048576)').sql).toBe('text');
   });
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ describe('cross-dialect type translation', () => {
   it('SQL Server → Postgres', () => {
     expect(xlate(mssql, pg, 'bit').sql).toBe('boolean');
     expect(xlate(mssql, pg, 'nvarchar(max)').sql).toBe('text');
-    expect(xlate(mssql, pg, 'datetime2').sql).toBe('timestamp');
+    // Bare datetime2 ≡ datetime2(7) in SQL Server.
+    expect(xlate(mssql, pg, 'datetime2').sql).toBe('timestamp(7)');
     expect(xlate(mssql, pg, 'uniqueidentifier').sql).toBe('uuid');
   });
 
@@ -96,10 +97,41 @@ describe('cross-dialect type translation', () => {
     expect(xlate(pg, oracle, 'timestamp(6)').sql).toBe('TIMESTAMP(6)');
   });
 
+  it('fills dialect-default fsp when catalogs omit the parenthetical', () => {
+    // Postgres format_type omits (6) for the default typmod; Oracle TIMESTAMP
+    // defaults to TIMESTAMP(6). Without attaching that length, MySQL rendered
+    // bare datetime (= fsp 0) and silently dropped microseconds on migrate.
+    expect(pg.parseType('timestamp without time zone')).toMatchObject({
+      base: 'timestamp',
+      length: 6,
+    });
+    expect(pg.parseType('timestamp with time zone')).toMatchObject({
+      base: 'timestamptz',
+      length: 6,
+    });
+    expect(pg.parseType('time without time zone')).toMatchObject({ base: 'time', length: 6 });
+    expect(xlate(pg, mysql, 'timestamp without time zone').sql).toBe('datetime(6)');
+    expect(xlate(pg, mysql, 'time').sql).toBe('time(6)');
+    expect(oracle.parseType('TIMESTAMP')).toMatchObject({ base: 'timestamp', length: 6 });
+    expect(xlate(oracle, mysql, 'TIMESTAMP').sql).toBe('datetime(6)');
+    // SQL Server datetime ≈ ms; smalldatetime has no fractional seconds.
+    expect(mssql.parseType('datetime')).toMatchObject({ base: 'timestamp', length: 3 });
+    expect(mssql.parseType('smalldatetime')).toMatchObject({ base: 'timestamp', length: 0 });
+    expect(xlate(mssql, mysql, 'datetime').sql).toBe('datetime(3)');
+    expect(xlate(mssql, mysql, 'smalldatetime').sql).toBe('datetime(0)');
+    expect(mssql.parseType('datetime2')).toMatchObject({ base: 'timestamp', length: 7 });
+    // MySQL bare datetime/time really are fsp 0 — do not invent a default.
+    expect(mysql.parseType('datetime')).toMatchObject({ base: 'timestamp' });
+    expect(mysql.parseType('datetime').length).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(xlate(mysql, mysql, 'datetime').sql).toBe('datetime');
+  });
+
   it('distinguishes temporal fsp in canonicalEquals', () => {
     expect(canonicalEquals(mysql.parseType('datetime(6)'), mysql.parseType('datetime'))).toBe(false);
     expect(canonicalEquals(pg.parseType('timestamp(6)'), pg.parseType('timestamp(3)'))).toBe(false);
     expect(canonicalEquals(pg.parseType('timestamp(6)'), pg.parseType('timestamp(6)'))).toBe(true);
+    // Bare Postgres timestamp ≡ timestamp(6).
+    expect(canonicalEquals(pg.parseType('timestamp'), pg.parseType('timestamp(6)'))).toBe(true);
   });
 
   it('attaches a warning when the target has no exact equivalent', () => {
diff --git a/packages/sql/src/modules/type-mapping.ts b/packages/sql/src/modules/type-mapping.ts
index 7f49058b..304d2f46 100644
--- a/packages/sql/src/modules/type-mapping.ts
+++ b/packages/sql/src/modules/type-mapping.ts
@@ -148,6 +148,20 @@ export const decimalAs = (kw: string): RenderRule => (t) =>
 /** Always renders `sql`, attaching a warning (for known inexact mappings). */
 export const warn = (sql: string, message: string): RenderRule => () => ({ sql, warning: message });
 
+/**
+ * Catalogs often omit the parenthetical when a temporal type uses its dialect
+ * default fractional-seconds precision (Postgres `timestamp` ≡ timestamp(6),
+ * Oracle `TIMESTAMP` ≡ TIMESTAMP(6)). Without that length, MySQL/MariaDB render
+ * bare `datetime`/`time` (= fsp 0) and silently truncate sub-seconds on migrate.
+ */
+export function withDefaultTemporalFsp(parsed: CanonicalType, defaultFsp: number): CanonicalType {
+  if (parsed.length !== undefined) return parsed;
+  if (parsed.base !== 'time' && parsed.base !== 'timestamp' && parsed.base !== 'timestamptz') {
+    return parsed;
+  }
+  return { ...parsed, length: defaultFsp };
+}
+
 /** True when two canonical types are equivalent (base + relevant size fields). */
 export function canonicalEquals(a: CanonicalType, b: CanonicalType): boolean {
   if (a.base !== b.base) return false;
diff --git a/packages/sql/src/providers/db2/db2.sql-dialect.ts b/packages/sql/src/providers/db2/db2.sql-dialect.ts
index 7295fbe3..af2b10e8 100644
--- a/packages/sql/src/providers/db2/db2.sql-dialect.ts
+++ b/packages/sql/src/providers/db2/db2.sql-dialect.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 import type { SqlDialect, ColumnSpec } from '../../modules/sql-dialect.interface.js';
-import { makeDialectTypeFns, plain, sized, sizedOr, decimalAs, temporalAs, warn } from '../../modules/type-mapping.js';
+import {
+  makeDialectTypeFns,
+  plain,
+  sized,
+  sizedOr,
+  decimalAs,
+  temporalAs,
+  warn,
+  withDefaultTemporalFsp,
+} from '../../modules/type-mapping.js';
 
 const types = makeDialectTypeFns({
   label: 'Db2',
@@ -206,4 +215,12 @@ export const db2SqlDialect: SqlDialect = {
   },
 
   ...types,
+  // Bare TIMESTAMP ≡ TIMESTAMP(6). TIME has no fractional seconds on Db2.
+  parseType: (raw: string) => {
+    const parsed = types.parseType(raw);
+    if (parsed.base === 'timestamp' && parsed.length === undefined) {
+      return withDefaultTemporalFsp(parsed, 6);
+    }
+    return parsed;
+  },
 };
diff --git a/packages/sql/src/providers/duckDb/duckdb.sql-dialect.ts b/packages/sql/src/providers/duckDb/duckdb.sql-dialect.ts
index 0134e464..3b81f850 100644
--- a/packages/sql/src/providers/duckDb/duckdb.sql-dialect.ts
+++ b/packages/sql/src/providers/duckDb/duckdb.sql-dialect.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 import type { SqlDialect, ColumnSpec } from '../../modules/sql-dialect.interface.js';
 import type { TableSchema } from '../../interfaces/index.js';
-import { makeDialectTypeFns, plain, sized, decimalAs } from '../../modules/type-mapping.js';
+import {
+  makeDialectTypeFns,
+  plain,
+  sized,
+  decimalAs,
+  withDefaultTemporalFsp,
+} from '../../modules/type-mapping.js';
 
 // DuckDB's type system is Postgres-flavored. Key differences from Postgres:
 // binary is BLOB (not bytea), and it exposes HUGEINT / unsigned ints (mapped
@@ -142,4 +148,6 @@ export const duckDbSqlDialect: SqlDialect = {
   },
 
   ...types,
+  // DuckDB TIMESTAMP defaults to microsecond precision when scale is omitted.
+  parseType: (raw: string) => withDefaultTemporalFsp(types.parseType(raw), 6),
 };
diff --git a/packages/sql/src/providers/oracle/oracle.sql-dialect.ts b/packages/sql/src/providers/oracle/oracle.sql-dialect.ts
index e0a199d6..a5fd2724 100644
--- a/packages/sql/src/providers/oracle/oracle.sql-dialect.ts
+++ b/packages/sql/src/providers/oracle/oracle.sql-dialect.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 import type { SqlDialect, ColumnSpec } from '../../modules/sql-dialect.interface.js';
 import type { TableSchema } from '../../interfaces/index.js';
-import { makeDialectTypeFns, plain, sized, sizedOr, decimalAs, temporalAs, warn } from '../../modules/type-mapping.js';
+import {
+  makeDialectTypeFns,
+  plain,
+  sized,
+  sizedOr,
+  decimalAs,
+  temporalAs,
+  warn,
+  withDefaultTemporalFsp,
+} from '../../modules/type-mapping.js';
 
 const types = makeDialectTypeFns({
   label: 'Oracle',
@@ -205,4 +214,6 @@ export const oracleSqlDialect: SqlDialect = {
   },
 
   ...types,
+  // Bare TIMESTAMP ≡ TIMESTAMP(6). Catalogs sometimes omit DATA_SCALE.
+  parseType: (raw: string) => withDefaultTemporalFsp(types.parseType(raw), 6),
 };
diff --git a/packages/sql/src/providers/postgres/postgres.sql-dialect.ts b/packages/sql/src/providers/postgres/postgres.sql-dialect.ts
index 7ec8fcc6..ed5efd0f 100644
--- a/packages/sql/src/providers/postgres/postgres.sql-dialect.ts
+++ b/packages/sql/src/providers/postgres/postgres.sql-dialect.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 import type { SqlDialect, ColumnSpec } from '../../modules/sql-dialect.interface.js';
 import type { TableSchema } from '../../interfaces/index.js';
-import { makeDialectTypeFns, plain, sized, decimalAs, temporalAs } from '../../modules/type-mapping.js';
+import {
+  makeDialectTypeFns,
+  plain,
+  sized,
+  decimalAs,
+  temporalAs,
+  withDefaultTemporalFsp,
+} from '../../modules/type-mapping.js';
 
 const types = makeDialectTypeFns({
   label: 'PostgreSQL',
@@ -68,6 +75,14 @@ function viewDepTag(qualifiedTable: string): string {
   return qualifiedTable.toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z0-9]+/g, '_').replace(/^_+|_+$/g, '').slice(0, 48);
 }
 
+/**
+ * Postgres `format_type` omits `(6)` when typmod is the default (-1). Bare
+ * `timestamp` / `timestamptz` / `time` still store 6 fractional digits.
+ */
+function parsePostgresType(raw: string) {
+  return withDefaultTemporalFsp(types.parseType(raw), 6);
+}
+
 export const postgresSqlDialect: SqlDialect = {
   identityClause(c: ColumnSpec): string {
     return c.identity ? ` GENERATED ${c.identityGeneration ?? 'ALWAYS'} AS IDENTITY` : '';
@@ -220,4 +235,5 @@ export const postgresSqlDialect: SqlDialect = {
   },
 
   ...types,
+  parseType: parsePostgresType,
 };
diff --git a/packages/sql/src/providers/redshift/redshift.sql-dialect.ts b/packages/sql/src/providers/redshift/redshift.sql-dialect.ts
index 22cc13fb..31071254 100644
--- a/packages/sql/src/providers/redshift/redshift.sql-dialect.ts
+++ b/packages/sql/src/providers/redshift/redshift.sql-dialect.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 import type { SqlDialect, ColumnSpec } from '../../modules/sql-dialect.interface.js';
-import { makeDialectTypeFns, plain, sized, decimalAs } from '../../modules/type-mapping.js';
+import {
+  makeDialectTypeFns,
+  plain,
+  sized,
+  decimalAs,
+  withDefaultTemporalFsp,
+} from '../../modules/type-mapping.js';
 
 // Redshift type system is a subset of Postgres. information_schema returns
 // standard SQL type names, so the mapping mirrors the Postgres dialect.
@@ -117,4 +123,6 @@ export const redshiftSqlDialect: SqlDialect = {
   dropRoutineSignature: true,
 
   ...types,
+  // Same as Postgres: bare timestamp/time still carry microsecond precision.
+  parseType: (raw: string) => withDefaultTemporalFsp(types.parseType(raw), 6),
 };
diff --git a/packages/sql/src/providers/sqlServer/sqlserver.sql-dialect.ts b/packages/sql/src/providers/sqlServer/sqlserver.sql-dialect.ts
index 46bc91da..42649c77 100644
--- a/packages/sql/src/providers/sqlServer/sqlserver.sql-dialect.ts
+++ b/packages/sql/src/providers/sqlServer/sqlserver.sql-dialect.ts
@@ -71,13 +71,25 @@ const types = makeDialectTypeFns({
   },
 });
 
-/** Attach the fixed MONEY/SMALLMONEY precision the bare parse map cannot express. */
+/**
+ * Attach sizes the bare parse map cannot express:
+ * - MONEY / SMALLMONEY fixed decimal precision
+ * - datetime (~ms) / smalldatetime (minutes) / default datetime2|time|datetimeoffset(7)
+ *   when the catalog omits the scale parenthetical
+ */
 function parseSqlServerType(raw: string) {
   const parsed = types.parseType(raw);
-  if (parsed.base !== 'decimal' || parsed.precision !== undefined) return parsed;
   const name = tokenizeType(raw).name;
-  if (name === 'money') return { ...parsed, precision: 19, scale: 4 };
-  if (name === 'smallmoney') return { ...parsed, precision: 10, scale: 4 };
+  if (parsed.base === 'decimal' && parsed.precision === undefined) {
+    if (name === 'money') return { ...parsed, precision: 19, scale: 4 };
+    if (name === 'smallmoney') return { ...parsed, precision: 10, scale: 4 };
+  }
+  if (parsed.length !== undefined) return parsed;
+  if (name === 'datetime') return { ...parsed, length: 3 };
+  if (name === 'smalldatetime') return { ...parsed, length: 0 };
+  if (name === 'datetime2' || name === 'time' || name === 'datetimeoffset') {
+    return { ...parsed, length: 7 };
+  }
   return parsed;
 }