Saturday, 17 November 2018

MSSQL - Fix Error - Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.

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Msg 241, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.


To fix it replace

Select Convert(date, '07122018')

with

Select Convert(date, Right('07122018', 4) + LEFT('07122018', 2) + SUBSTRING('07122018', 3, 2))