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

What about a solution with only date functions, not math, not worries about leap year

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.getAge(@dt datetime) 
RETURNS int
AS
BEGIN
    RETURN 
        DATEDIFF(yy, @dt, getdate())
        - CASE 
            WHEN 
                MONTH(@dt) > MONTH(GETDATE()) OR 
                (MONTH(@dt) = MONTH(GETDATE()) AND DAY(@dt) > DAY(GETDATE())) 
            THEN 1 
            ELSE 0 
        END
END