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  • No,

    ISDATE is different.

    You can use this ias an example

    DECLARE @datestring varchar(8)

    SET @datestring = '12/21/1098'

    SELECT ISDATE(@datestring)

    Above will still print out 1 because its an valid date. but still out of range for DATETIME.