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

Check the documentation for this function in MySQL

DATE_FORMAT(date, format)

DATE_FORMAT(col, '%m/%Y')

Answer 2

DATE_FORMAT function

DATE_FORMAT(col,'%m/%Y')

Answer 3

date_format(yourdatefield, '%c/%Y') as formatted_date

will do that- http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_date-format

Answer 4

use DATE_FORMAT function

http://www.mysqlformatdate.com will help you use the function properly

Answer 5

For IIS, I just use a function:

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