Sql Server string to date conversion

Question

I want to convert a string like this:

\'10/15/2008 10:06:32 PM\'

into the equivalent DATETIME value in Sql Server.

In Oracle, I wou

Answer 1

For this problem the best solution I use is to have a CLR function in Sql Server 2005 that uses one of DateTime.Parse or ParseExact function to return the DateTime value with a specified format.