Question

hopefully a quick one this.

The below doesn’t work:

DECLARE @stringDate nvarchar(50)
SET @stringDate = '0001-01-01T12:00:00'

SELECT 
    @stringDate AS StringDate,
    CONVERT(datetime, @stringDate, 126) AS ConvertedDate

Produces the error: The conversion of a nvarchar data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value.

What’s the simplest way of achieving the conversion?

Thanks

Answer 1

Type Datetime does not support the year 0001. Supported range is 1753 to 9999.
As a workaround you can use type DateTime2 instead

SELECT 
    @stringDate AS StringDate,
    CONVERT(datetime2, @stringDate, 126) AS ConvertedDate