Saving Dates in SQLServer

Question

I have a legacy application where the input is a date string, i.e.:

06/12/2009

The format of the input is always a string, and i

Answer 1

I agree with the advice from spencer7593, but please be aware that using cast or convert without a format can give unexpected results. This T-SQL query returns 12, not 1.

set language British
select month(CAST('2016-01-12' AS datetime))