How to calculate age (in years) based on Date of Birth and getDate()

Question

I have a table listing people along with their date of birth (currently a nvarchar(25))

How can I convert that to a date, and then calculate their age in years?

Answer 1

So many of the above solutions are wrong DateDiff(yy,@Dob, @PassedDate) will not consider the month and day of both dates. Also taking the dart parts and comparing only works if they're properly ordered.

THE FOLLOWING CODE WORKS AND IS VERY SIMPLE:

create function [dbo].[AgeAtDate](
    @DOB    datetime,
    @PassedDate datetime
)

returns int
with SCHEMABINDING
as
begin

declare @iMonthDayDob int
declare @iMonthDayPassedDate int


select @iMonthDayDob = CAST(datepart (mm,@DOB) * 100 + datepart  (dd,@DOB) AS int) 
select @iMonthDayPassedDate = CAST(datepart (mm,@PassedDate) * 100 + datepart  (dd,@PassedDate) AS int) 

return DateDiff(yy,@DOB, @PassedDate) 
- CASE WHEN @iMonthDayDob <= @iMonthDayPassedDate
  THEN 0 
  ELSE 1
  END

End