How can I convert datetime to date, truncating the times, leaving me the dates?

Question

I have a field that\'s in datetime format when date would be better and more consistent with the rest of the database, so I want to convert. The time part is all 00:00:00 an

Answer 1

when using change we have to repeat the same name again for the field.now we can use MODIFY to alter the filed type.

ALTER TABLE `yourtable` MODIFY `yourfield` DATE;