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

After trying MANY methods, this works 100% of the time using the modern MS SQL FORMAT function instead of convert to style 112. Either would work but this is the least code.

Can anyone find a date combination which does not work? I don't think there is one :)

--Set parameters, or choose from table.column instead:

DECLARE @DOB    DATE = '2000/02/29' -- If @DOB is a leap day...
       ,@ToDate DATE = '2018/03/01' --...there birthday in this calculation will be 

--0+ part tells SQL to calc the char(8) as numbers:
SELECT [Age] = (0+ FORMAT(@ToDate,'yyyyMMdd') - FORMAT(@DOB,'yyyyMMdd') ) /10000