TSQL: datetime from character string error

Question

There are some posts related to this but I\'m so new to TSQL that I cannot make sense of them so please excuse me.

My procedure has:

    BEGIN TRY

              


        

Answer 1

If you look at the documentation for CONVERT, you'll see that format 102 is the ANSI format, or yyyy.mm.dd. So passing a date like 2012.05.08 should work.

It looks like 2012.05.08 9:41 and 2012.05.08 9:41AM will work too, but that's outside the documented format.