how to format date field in MYSQL

Question

All,

I need to retrieve the date in some specific format in MYSQL. For eg,

it should return month/year(10/2009).

My MYSQL version is 5.1.

Thanks

Answer 1

For IIS, I just use a function:

FUNCTION mySLQDate(xdate)
    IF xdate <> "" THEN
        mySLQDate = year(xdate) & "/" & month(xdate) & "/" & day(xdate)
    END IF
END FUNCTION