How to use TRY_PARSE() in SQL 2005/2008 ?

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The query that i am working is given below which is working perfectly in my SQL server 2012
and not working in 2005/2008 version.

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SELECT Employee.EmployeeID, Employee.FullName, EmpEntityParamValues.ParamValue,
FROM EmpEntityParamValues INNER JOIN Employee 
ON EmpEntityParamValues.EmployeeId = Employee.EmployeeID AND EmpEntityParamValues.EntityTypeParamID = @EntityTypeParamID
AND ( TRY_PARSE(EmpEntityParamValues.ParamValue AS smalldatetime) BETWEEN @CurrentDateTime AND @LastDateTime )

where EmpEntityParamValues.ParamValue is of varchar datatype and it contains different types of data,

How to replace try_parse for older version of sql?

Any help.??

Posted 30-Aug-13 19:25pm

Sadique KT

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Mehdi Gholam · Answer 1 · 2013-08-30T19:27:00

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You can use CAST or CONVERT see this : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187928%28v=sql.90%29.aspx[^]

Posted 30-Aug-13 19:27pm

Mehdi Gholam