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Handle Null Date values in Microsoft SQL Server

In an SQL Server View, a problem is that the DateTime field has many NULL values which is causing a problem with the parsing of the data in MSAccess. How to I use CAST (or CONVERT) to handle Null Date values in my SQL Server view? There is a way to use CAST or CONVERT similar to the nz type function in MSAccess to handle null date values but I can't remember the syntax. What is happening now is that I get a data mismatch in my MSAccess function when it hits a Null Date value. Can I somehow use the ISNULL or ISDate function? I believe I need to somehow return "" instead of Null. Read more »