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

Declare @dob datetime
Declare @today datetime

Set @dob = '05/20/2000'
set @today = getdate()

select  CASE
            WHEN dateadd(year, datediff (year, @dob, @today), @dob) > @today 
            THEN datediff (year, @dob, @today) - 1
            ELSE datediff (year, @dob, @today)
        END as Age