Parse Date from MM/DD/YYYY to a format MYSQL can work with

Question

Currently working with a MLS data dump in which all their dates are formatted in MM/DD/YYYY , Trying to get the min/max age

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Answer 1

use java or c# or something to split the string of the date by the / and reorder the date into the format expected by mysql before you run the mysql query.