MySQL str_to_date produces NULL despite valid formatting

Question

I\'m trying to use the str_to_date function from mysql to convert a TEXT field to a date. Now running:

mysql> select Date from sampleData limit 2;
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Answer 1

It looks like you have those doublequotes in there also. When you try to convert it with the doublequotes, you get null.

Try doing:

select str_to_date(REPLACE(Date,'"',''), '%d-%m-%Y') 
from tab1 sampleData 2;

sqlfiddle demo