SQL Query - Change date format in query to DD/MM/YYYY

Question

What I\'m trying to achieve is fairly straight forward, to get one date format to another;

From This: Jan 30 2013 12:00:00:000AM To This: DD/MM/YYYY

Answer 1

If you have a Date (or Datetime) column, look at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_date-format

 SELECT DATE_FORMAT(datecolumn,'%d/%m/%Y') FROM ...

Should do the job for MySQL, for SqlServer I'm sure there is an analog function. If you have a VARCHAR column, you might have at first to convert it to a date, see STR_TO_DATE for MySQL.