Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string in SQL SERVER 2008

Question

I have below SQL.

 UPDATE  student_queues
 SET  Deleted=0,  
      last_accessed_by='raja', 
      last_accessed_on=CONVERT(VARCHAR(24),'23-07-2014 09:37:00',113)
 WHERE std_id IN ('2144-384-11564') 
   AND reject_details='REJECT'

when I ran the above SQL the below exception has been throwed.

Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.

Answer 1

If you're trying to insert in to last_accessed_on, which is a DateTime2, then your issue is with the fact that you are converting it to a varchar in a format that SQL doesn't understand.

If you modify your code to this, it should work, note the format of your date has been changed to: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss:

UPDATE  student_queues 
SET  Deleted=0, 
     last_accessed_by='raja', 
     last_accessed_on=CONVERT(datetime2,'2014-07-23 09:37:00')
WHERE std_id IN ('2144-384-11564') AND reject_details='REJECT'

Or if you want to use CAST, replace with:

CAST('2014-07-23 09:37:00.000' AS datetime2)

This is using the SQL ISO Date Format.