How to convert int to date in SQL Server 2008

Question

I am using MS SQL Server 2008, and in a table I have column idate as date but in the integer format. But in the query I want that in the date format. Is it possible to conve

Answer 1

You can't convert an integer value straight to a date but you can first it to a datetime then to a date type

select cast(40835 as datetime)

and then convert to a date (SQL 2008)

select cast(cast(40835 as datetime) as date)

cheers