How to store and search for an IP Address

Question

I have the 4 sources of IP addresses , I want to store them in SQL Server and allow the ranges, that can be categorised by the originating country code, to be maked in an E

Answer 1

For IPv4 normally a DBA would recommend 4 tinyint fields but you're doing ranges, which lend itself more to the integer storage solutions previously provided. In that case you would store a beginning IP address and an ending IP address for the range. Then it's a simple matter to do the comparison.