I have one column date1 which is varchar type
I want this column to date type.
I tried changing field but all date is converted to 0000-00-00.
format is dd-mm-yyyy but in varchar.
How can I convert the same date format but with date format using sql queries or similar but at database level ?
UPDATE `table`
SET `column` = str_to_date( `column`, '%d-%m-%Y' );
More about STR_TO_DATE function.
Since your column name is date1, you can replace column with date1 in the above syntax, and the code shall be:
UPDATE `table`
SET `date1` = str_to_date( `date1`, '%d-%m-%Y' );
The other answers here are risky, because if they go wrong you'll lose your data. A safer way to do this is to create a new field on your database with a DATE (or DATETIME if you need time as well) format, then to run a query like
UPDATE `table` SET `my_new_date_field` = STR_TO_DATE( `my_old_data_field`, '%d/%m/%Y');
In this way, if the %d/%m/%Y bit is wrong, you won't lose your data.
Once you're happy, you can delete the old data field and rename the new one.
use STR_TO_DATE Function of MySQL
FIRST you will need to update the value in date format.
UPDATE `tbl` SET `date1` = STR_TO_DATE(`date1`, '%d-%m-%Y') WHERE 1=1
THEN Convert the field to date.
Most importantly remember to insert date as Y-m-d format, after then.
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I have a column with value 9/12/2012 00:00:00.000000 in a MySQL table, how do I update the table to make the value like 2012-12-9 00:00:00.000000.
The best thing to do would be to convert your text date column to a proper datetime column using STR_TO_DATE:
UPDATE yourTable
SET newDate = STR_TO_DATE(oldDate, '%m/%d/%Y %H:%i:%s.%f');
Once you have done this, you may view your datetime column any way you want:
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(newDate, '%Y-%d-%m %H:%i:%s.%f') AS newDateFormatted
FROM yourTable;
I have a column in a table in MySql, which contains dates as string in any format (there is not fixed pattern) it could be as m-d-y or M-D-Y or m/d/y or YY/MM/DD or MM/DD/YY or mm/dd/yy etc. My question is how should I detect it and then change to some particular format i.e mm/dd/yy.
If you can guess the number of different formats you stored the dates in a varchar field then it would be easier to deal with the problem;
One way would be put all those different formats in the query given below:
SELECT
COALESCE(
STR_TO_DATE(your_date_column,'%m-%d-%Y'),
STR_TO_DATE(your_date_column,'%M-%D-%Y'),
STR_TO_DATE(your_date_column,'%m/%d/%Y'),
STR_TO_DATE(your_date_column,'%m-%d-%Y'),
....
.
.
)
FROM your_table;
Demonstration:
SET #your_date_field := '8/8/2016';
SELECT
COALESCE(
STR_TO_DATE(#your_date_field,'%m-%d-%Y'),
STR_TO_DATE(#your_date_field,'%M-%D-%Y'),
STR_TO_DATE(#your_date_field,'%m/%d/%Y'),
STR_TO_DATE(#your_date_field,'%M/%D/%Y')
);
Output: 2016-08-08 (yyyy-mm-dd)
Note:
But dates should be stored in a date datatype. Violating this will put towards this kind of cumbersome situation.
So, better move these date strings to date datatype column.
More: In order to move these date strings to a date datatype column you can follow the steps below:
ALTER TABLE your_table ADD COLUMN date_new date;
UPDATE
your_table
SET date_new = COALESCE(
STR_TO_DATE(your_date_column,'%m-%d-%Y'),
STR_TO_DATE(your_date_column,'%M-%D-%Y'),
STR_TO_DATE(your_date_column,'%m/%d/%Y'),
STR_TO_DATE(your_date_column,'%m-%d-%Y'),
....
.
.
);
ALTER TABLE your_table DROP COLUMN `date`;
ALTER TABLE datestable CHANGE COLUMN `date_new` `date` date;
Good Morning All;
I currently have a MySQL table where there are 3 date fields (Columns) that were loaded as strings in this format 20140101 YYYYmmdd. I would like to convert this to a date format 2014/01/01 YYYY/mm/dd. Can someone please provide a simple sql syntax that would alter the table to a date format from a string and change the column to display the dates like this 2014/01/01 and not like 20140101. Thanks to all
Try this:
date_format(str_to_date(datecolumn, '%Y%m%d'),'%Y/%m/%d')
If you just want to reformat the values in the VARCHAR column, assuming that the column with sufficient length e.g. VARCHAR(10), and all the values are eight characters in length...
You could do something like this:
UPDATE mytable t
SET t.mycol = CONCAT( LEFT( t.mycol ,4)
, '/'
, SUBSTR( t.mycol ,5,2)
,'/'
, SUBSTR( t.mycol ,7,2)
)
WHERE CHAR_LENGTH(t.mycol) = 8
We want something in the statement that will prevent the statement from "working" a second time, if it's inadvertently re-run. It doesn't have to be CHAR_LENGTH. We might want to include a check that the value doesn't already contain a slash character AND t.mycol NOT LIKE '%/%'.
But why on earth are "date" values being stored in character columns, rather than in DATE datatype, which is custom designed for storing and working with date values?
ALTER TABLE mytable MODIFY mycol DATE ... ;
(If the column is defined as NOT NULL, has a default value, has a comment, those attributes can be retained, they need to be included in the new column specification, e.g.
ALTER TABLE mytable MODIFY mycol DATE NOT NULL COMMENT 'creation date';
Note that DATE columns do not have a "format" per se. When converting to string, MySQL uses date format '%Y-%m-%d'. And MySQL expects string literals representing date values to be in that same format. To get a value from a DATE column converted to string in format 'yyyy/mm/dd'.
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(date_col,'%Y/%m/%d') AS date_col
To get a string value in that format converted to DATE datatype
SELECT STR_TO_DATE('2015/06/01','%Y/%m/%d')
mysql update deletes the field data on some rows rather than update them when i run this mysql statement
UPDATE
tablename
SET
date = DATE_FORMAT(STR_TO_DATE(date, "%d/%m/%Y"), "%Y-%m-%d")
I am trying to update date formats from 05/08/2013 to 2013-05-08 to make it so I can search where date between $date and $date
try this:
UPDATE tablename SET `date` = STR_TO_DATE(`date`, '%d/%m/%Y')
and then change the datatype of the column like this
ALTER TABLE tablename CHANGE COLUMN `date` `date` DATE
OR ALternatively
update tablename SET date = DATE_FORMAT(STR_TO_DATE(date,'%d/%m/%y'),'%y-%m-%d')
You should make sure that your date field is true DATE or DATETIME datatype. After that,
UPDATE tablename
SET `date` = STR_TO_DATE(old_date, '%d/%m/%Y')
Then, you would be able to do all normal math on dates: add, subtract, compare, sort, etc.
MySQL STR_TO_DATE() returns a datetime value by taking a string and a specific format string as arguments.
If the date or time or datetime value specified as string is illegal, the function returns NULL so check all value in select statement first to know if its returning null
Select DATE_FORMAT(STR_TO_DATE(date, "%d/%m/%Y"), "%Y-%m-%d") from tablename
I have a date field (tinytext) holding date information in format of "dd-mm-yy" e.g 07-01-90. Using a mysql query I want to change it to yyyy-mm-dd date format. I tried the code below but nothing happens.
mysql_query("UPDATE Table SET date=STR_TO_DATE('date','%Y,%m,%d')");
You're using the correct function STR_TO_DATE(str,format) to achieve the goal, but you're making two mistakes:
In your query the format argument does not match the string expression format. You said it's in dd-mm-yy format while you passed %Y,%m,%d (comma separated) to the format argument. The query will return a "incorrect datetime value" error. You should use %d-%m-%Y.
You can't change data type of a column on the fly, by setting different type of the value being passed. You have to first update the values and then change data type for column.
So, summarizing:
mysql_query("UPDATE `Table` SET `date` = STR_TO_DATE(`date`, '%d-%m-%Y')");
mysql_query("ALTER TABLE `Table` CHANGE COLUMN `date` `date` DATE");
Additionally, consider switching to the recommended PDO extension in place of old and slowly deprecated mysql extension.
Error in your query
is STR_TO_DATE(date, '%Y-%m-%d')
mysql_query("UPDATE Table SET date=STR_TO_DATE(date,'%Y-%m-%d')");
Try this:
INSERT INTO table(date_field) VALUES(STR_TO_DATE('December 8, 2010','%M %d,%Y'));
Try it with DATE_FORMAT() function.
mysql_query("UPDATE Table SET date=DATE_FORMAT(date,'%Y,%m,%d')");
To display 2 digit year
mysql_query("UPDATE Table SET date=DATE_FORMAT(date,'%y-%m-%d')");
To display 4 digit year
mysql_query("UPDATE Table SET date=DATE_FORMAT(date,'%Y-%m-%d')");
I'd say you have to do this:
UPDATE table_name SET date = DATE_FORMAT('date', %Y-%m-%d);
If you are using my_sql with php, you can use date function