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

Try this solution:

declare @BirthDate datetime
declare @ToDate datetime

set @BirthDate = '1/3/1990'
set @ToDate = '1/2/2008'
select @BirthDate [Date of Birth], @ToDate [ToDate],(case when (DatePart(mm,@ToDate) <  Datepart(mm,@BirthDate)) 
        OR (DatePart(m,@ToDate) = Datepart(m,@BirthDate) AND DatePart(dd,@ToDate) < Datepart(dd,@BirthDate))
        then (Datepart(yy, @ToDate) - Datepart(yy, @BirthDate) - 1)
        else (Datepart(yy, @ToDate) - Datepart(yy, @BirthDate))end) Age