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.

Answer 2

Change CONVERT(DATETIME, @mydate, 102) to CONVERT(DATETIME, @mydate, 100)

or just CONVERT(DATETIME, @mydate)

reference to CAST and CONVERT and http://www.sqlusa.com/bestpractices/datetimeconversion/ on MSDN

Answer 3

Maybe something like this:

EXEC mydbo.dbo.myprocedure @mydate = '2012/05/08 09:21:00'