Format a string to a date in MySQL query - mysql

I have a table as shown below, the date column is a string(MMMM-yyyy).
I want to select the latest row for an ID. For ID # 2, the latest date would be August-2020 with the price of 45.40
ID Date Price
2 August-2020 45.40
2 July-2020 42.30
I've tried the format(date, 'MMMM-yyyy) as formatted date and STR_TO_DATE(date, '%MMMM-%yyyy') but I can't get it to convert to a date so I can order the column. I want to keep the date in this format, I just need to order it for my query.

Use str_to_date() to convert the string to a date; a little trick is needed to make the original value a complete date string before conversion, so:
str_to_date(concat(date, '-01'), '%M-%Y-%d')
To filter the table on the latest date per id, you would do:
select t.*
from mytable t
where date = (
select date
from mytable t1
where t1.id = t.id
order by str_to_date(concat(date, '-01'), '%M-%Y-%d') desc
limit 1
)

You need to proper format specifiers for MySQL. I would expect this to work:
select STR_TO_DATE('August-2020', '%M-%Y')
However, it appears that you need:
select str_to_date(concat('01-', 'August-2020'), '%d-%M-%Y')
Here is a db<>fiddle.

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Mysql. Change date format output on GROUP BY DAY query

I execute this query
SELECT * FROM graph WHERE ean IN ('00000000166330') group by DAY(created_at);
Getting those results:
# id, ean, avg_price, created_at
'58', '00000000166330', '2799.0000', '2020-06-11 16:43:27'
I want to change the date format returned of the created_at field.
I would like to get only the date, not the hour, and with the format: Day, month, Year.
My guess is that DATE_FORMAT should be used, but how to use it, grouping also by day?
Example here
You are not doing any aggregation, so remove group by
You can replace the operator IN with = because you are comparing against 1 value only
Use the function DATE() to get only the date part from created_at
You need a correlated subquery in the WHERE clause to get the row with the minimum id (since it does not matter whic row will be returned) of each day:
SELECT g.id, g.ean, g.avg_price, DATE_FORMAT(g.created_at, '%d-%m-%Y') created_at
FROM graph g
WHERE g.ean = '00000000166330'
AND g.id = (SELECT MIN(id) FROM graph WHERE ean = g.ean AND DATE(created_at) = DATE(g.created_at))
See the demo.
If you want distinct values without aggregation function you should use DISTINCT and for date you can use the date_format() function
SELECT DISTINCT DAY(created_at)
, date_format(date(created_at),'%d, %m, %Y') , id, avg_price
FROM graph WHERE ean = '00000000166330';
and when you have only a value you should use = and not IN operator.

Order by date when a format 'dd-MM-YYYY' is given in the select statement is not working as expected

I store the date in a DATETIME field in my database. When I create a select statement I need to show it with format '%d-%m-%Y' but I have problems sorting the data by date.
this is my selec statement:
SELECT
DATE_FORMAT(Date,'%d-%m-%Y') AS Date
FROM Purchase
WHERE Date BETWEEN '2019-02-01' AND '2019-06-30' ORDER BY Date asc;
But the data does not get sorted by date. How can I solve this?
If you use the same name for the column date and formatted date then the order by work for the alias column .. so is order by day, month, year as in your format ('%d-%m-%Y')
then try changing the alias name
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(Date,'%d-%m-%Y') AS My_Date
FROM Purchase
WHERE Date BETWEEN '2019-02-01' AND '2019-06-30'
ORDER BY Date asc;
or use a proper order by format
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(Date,'%d-%m-%Y')Date
FROM Purchase
WHERE Date BETWEEN '2019-02-01' AND '2019-06-30'
ORDER BY DATE_FORMAT(Date,'%Y-%m-%d') asc;
You can solve this by telling SQL to order by the Purchase.Date field instead of the formatted string date value. When you chose to order by "Date" with no table or table alias specified, SQL assumes you want the formatted result aliased as Date, not the "Date" field from your Purchase table.
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(Date,'%d-%m-%Y') AS My_Date
FROM Purchase
WHERE Date BETWEEN '2019-02-01' AND '2019-06-30'
ORDER BY Purchase.Date asc;

Count on curdate() in mysql

I have a user_entry table which contains a date field. data type is datetime.
data base is mysql.
I want a count of current date and current month and all data of current date.
How can I get this?
I tried below query but it's not working.
select * from table
where DATE(date) = CURDATE()
SELECT date FROM `test` WHERE date = CURDATE()
or
SELECT date FROM `test` WHERE date = DATE('2016-04-04')
it's work.
if you want the number of matches:
SELECT COUNT(date) from test WHERE date = CURDATE()
What is the data type of field 'date'?
To obtain the DAY/MONTH you can use the corresponding functions
SELECT MONTH(date), DAY(date) from test
Moreover, you can use groups to create a complete report
SELECT COUNT(date), date from test GROUP BY DAY(date), MONTH(date)
i used below query and it works for me.
SELECT *
FROM `user_entry`
WHERE DATE( DATE ) = DATE( NOW( ) )

Sql between two dates

I have this query:
SELECT *
FROM some_table
WHERE id != 1 AND
(event_date BETWEEN '20/06/2015' AND '01/07/2015')
ORDER BY the_date
The result is 0.
If I try this query:
SELECT *
FROM events
WHERE id != 1 AND
(event_date BETWEEN '20/06/2015' AND '29/06/2015')
ORDER BY the_date
It works.
What is the problem with the difference between tow month (Juny and July).
Thanks.
Seems like you're comparing these dates lexicographically. Assuming that event_date is a date column, use str_to_date to convert the string literals to dates:
SELECT *
FROM some_table
WHERE id != 1 AND
(event_date BETWEEN STR_TO_DATE('20/06/2015', '%d/%m/%Y') AND
STR_TO_DATE('01/07/2015', '%d/%m/%Y'))
ORDER BY the_date
Write date constants in the ISO standard YYYY-MM-DD format:
SELECT *
FROM some_table
WHERE id != 1 AND
event_date BETWEEN '2015-06-20' AND '2015-07-01'
ORDER BY the_date
MySQL uses the following data types for saving a date:
DATE - format YYYY-MM-DD
DATETIME - format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS
TIMESTAMP - format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS
Try changing the date format

MySQL Query not selecting correct date range

Im currently trying to run a SQL query to export data between a certain date, but it runs the query fine, just not the date selection and i can't figure out what's wrong.
SELECT
title AS Order_No,
FROM_UNIXTIME(entry_date, '%d-%m-%Y') AS Date,
status AS Status,
field_id_59 AS Transaction_ID,
field_id_32 AS Customer_Name,
field_id_26 AS Sub_Total,
field_id_28 AS VAT,
field_id_31 AS Discount,
field_id_27 AS Shipping_Cost,
(field_id_26+field_id_28+field_id_27-field_id_31) AS Total
FROM
exp_channel_data AS d NATURAL JOIN
exp_channel_titles AS t
WHERE
t.channel_id = 5 AND FROM_UNIXTIME(entry_date, '%d-%m-%Y') BETWEEN '01-05-2012' AND '31-05-2012' AND status = 'Shipped'
ORDER BY
entry_date DESC
As explained in the manual, date literals should be in YYYY-MM-DD format. Also, bearing in mind the point made by #ypercube in his answer, you want:
WHERE t.channel_id = 5
AND entry_date >= UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2012-05-01')
AND entry_date < UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2012-06-01')
AND status = 'Shipped'
Besides the date format there is another issue. To effectively use any index on entry_date, you should not apply functions to that column when you use it conditions in WHERE, GROUP BY or HAVING clauses (you can use the formatting in SELECT list, if you need a different than the default format to be shown). An effective way to write that part of the query would be:
( entry_date >= '2012-05-01'
AND entry_date < '2012-06-01'
)
It works with DATE, DATETIME and TIMESTAMP columns.