Error when loading date/time via xml SQL Server - sql-server

Question

SQL Server 2016
I am loding bulk records via xml. I have the following query:
DECLARE #xmlString VARCHAR(4000);
SET #xmlString = N'
<Customers>
<OrderID>10248</OrderID>
<CustomerID>VINET</CustomerID>
<CreateDate>10/7/2016 7:31:06 AM</CreateDate>
</Customers>
';
DECLARE #xml XML;
SET #xml = CONVERT(XML, #xmlString);
INSERT INTO [test].dbo.[customers]
( [OrderID] ,
[CustomerID] ,
[CreateDate]
)
SELECT T.Customer.value('(OrderID)[1]', 'INT') AS OrderID ,
T.Customer.value('(CustomerID)[1]', 'nvarchar(20)') AS CustomerID ,
T.Customer.value('(CreateDate)[1]', 'DATETIME') AS CreateDate
FROM #xml.nodes('Customers') AS T ( Customer );
If I remove the CreateDate field, this will load just fine. However, if i leave the CreateDate field in, i receive this error:
Msg 241, Level 16, State 1, Line 35
Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.
CreateDate is a DATETIME field.
Here is the table:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Customers](
[OrderID] [INT] NULL,
[CreateDate] [DATETIME] NOT NULL,
[CustomerID] [NVARCHAR](10) NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
What conversion am I missing to load date/time into my table via xml? Thanks

Answer 1

In your comment you say I am creating the xml. How are you doing this?
In properly created XML date/time value ought to be ISO8601.
Your few lines of code show, that you do not think in XML. XML is not simple text with some extra characters...
Nevertheless your format is convertable with code 131 for dd/mm/yyyy or 101 for mm/dd/yyyy, but you should not do this!
DECLARE #xml XML=
N'
<Customers>
<OrderID>10248</OrderID>
<CustomerID>VINET</CustomerID>
<CreateDate>10/7/2016 7:31:06 AM</CreateDate>
</Customers>
';
SELECT c.value('OrderID[1]','int') AS OrderID
,c.value('CustomerID[1]','nvarchar(100)') AS CustomerID
,CONVERT(DATETIME,c.value('CreateDate[1]','nvarchar(100)'),101) AS CreateDate
FROM #xml.nodes('Customers') AS A(c)
Better try it like this
DECLARE #xml2 XML=
N'
<Customers>
<OrderID>10248</OrderID>
<CustomerID>VINET</CustomerID>
<CreateDate>2016-10-07T07:31:06</CreateDate>
</Customers>
';
SELECT c.value('OrderID[1]','int') AS OrderID
,c.value('CustomerID[1]','nvarchar(100)') AS CustomerID
,c.value('CreateDate[1]','datetime') AS CreateDate
FROM #xml2.nodes('Customers') AS A(c)

Answer 2

Use following if the XML date is in mm/dd/yyyy format
CONVERT(datetime, T.Customer.value('(CreateDate)[1]', 'nvarchar(50)'), 101) AS CreateDate
If the Date in XML is in some other format like dd/mm/yyyy - please visit below link to find out what should be placed instead of 101
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187928.aspx