How to use DATEDIFF to return year, month and day?

Question

How can I use DATEDIFF to return the difference between two dates in years, months and days in SQL Server 2005

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Answer 1

It works for some of the situations but when you are subtracting dates like 2007-10-15 (DateHired) from 2011-01-13 (dateterminated) it gives you a negative number when the abs isn't around it but putting the abs around doesn't fix it either because then the year and month figure are incorrect.