Mssql varchar to datetime

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Published on 2010-05-21T08:44:06Z Indexed on 2010/05/21 8:50 UTC
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I have a field varchar(14) = 20090226115644
I need convert it to -> 2009-02-26 11:56:44
(datetime format)

My idea. use cast and convert.. but I allways have errors.
Conversion failed when converting datetime from character string.

I made this, but don`t like it..

SELECT  
    SUBSTRING(move,1,4) + '-' + SUBSTRING(move,5,2) + '-' + SUBSTRING(move,7,2) + ' ' + SUBSTRING(move,9,2) + ':' + SUBSTRING(move,11,2) + ':'+SUBSTRING(move,13,2) as new -- 
FROM [Test].[dbo].[container_events]
where move IS not null

Result :2009-02-26 11:56:44

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