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

Took me a minute to figure this out so here it is in case it might help someone:

In SQL Server 2012 and better you can use this function:

SELECT DATEFROMPARTS(2013, 8, 19);

Here's how I ended up extracting the parts of the date to put into this function:

select
DATEFROMPARTS(right(cms.projectedInstallDate,4),left(cms.ProjectedInstallDate,2),right( left(cms.ProjectedInstallDate,5),2)) as 'dateFromParts'
from MyTable