Convert String to DATETIME

Hi,
I'm really struggling in converting a string which contains a dates to a DateTime datatype.
below is an example of how it looks
AdmissionDate
29.09.14 08:52
29.09.14 08:50
29.09.14 08:06

Hi Sam,
you can use convert function to change the above string to datetime data type.
select
convert(datetime,'29.09.14 08:52',3)
select
convert(datetime,'29.09.14 08:50',3)
select
convert(datetime,'29.09.14 08:06',3)
Thanks, RajaSekhara Reddy . K

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