title: How to insert date type with slashes
body: <p>I receive below error message when I tried to insert date in a table:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <pre><code>create table test (
    [date] date
  ) 
  go
  
  insert into test
    values ('17/12/2015')
  </code></pre>