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  • September 25, 2012 at 1:39 pm

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    Adam Gojdas (5/28/2010)

    Another way to calculate the age is:

    SELECT (ABS(CAST(CONVERT(char(8),GETDATE(),112) AS int)

    - CAST(CONVERT(char(8),@DOB,112) AS int)) / 10000) [AGE];

    Here is a link to where I originally saw this type of calculation. It is in the comments section. :

    http://www.sqlmag.com/article/tsql3/datetime-calculations-part-5.aspx

    Careful now... Because of the date conversions to the CHAR datatype, that will be relatively slow.

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