I am fetching the current date & time using NOW() in mysql. I want to convert the date value into a varchar and concat it with another string. How do I do it?
Use DATE_FORMAT()
SELECT
DATE_FORMAT(NOW(), '%d %m %Y') AS your_date;
This is super old, but I figured I'd add my 2c. DATE_FORMAT does indeed return a string, but I was looking for the CAST function, in the situation that I already had a datetime string in the database and needed to pattern match against it:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/cast-functions.html
In this case, you'd use:
CAST(date_value AS char)
This answers a slightly different question, but the question title seems ambiguous enough that this might help someone searching.
Try this:
concat(left(datefield,10),left(timefield,8))
10 char on date field based on full date yyyy-MM-dd.
8 char on time field based on full time hh:mm:ss.
It depends on the format you want it. normally you can use script above and you can concat another field or string as you want it.
Because actually date and time field tread as string if you read it. But of course you will got error while update or insert it.
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why this query gives me the wrong output although I am trying to print data between '01-May-2022' and '30-May-2022';
why is this query giving me apr data?
It appears that you are storing your dates as text. You should not be doing this, and the best long term fix is to make datee a proper date column. As a short term fix, you may use STR_TO_DATE:
SELECT datee
FROM customer_shopping_details_tbl
WHERE STR_TO_DATE(datee, '%d-%b-%Y') BETWEEN '2022-05-01' AND '2022-05-30';
Thank you all ....
I did a mistake while saving the date, I had saved the date in the string format. That is the reason that the query does not show proper output
What I learned/point to remember
-MySQL date format is yyyy-mm-dd
-Save your date in the form of date NOT IN String
go through the comments for the better idea
I have saved my data in the form of String so i have fired the following query and is working now
Good evening,
Maybe this could help:
SELECT login,datetime FROM log where datetime between
to_date(’01-jan-2004,’mm/dd/yyyy’) and
to_date(’21-jan-2004′,’mm/dd/yyy’)
order by datetime DESC;
I have a dateformat but to display on front end I would like to display the data like so.
SELECT STR_TO_DATE('5,2013','%m,%Y');
The result I would like to generate is 'May 2013'.
Why are you storing dates as string values? Mysql has dedicated data types for date and time values: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/date-and-time-types.html
When using date, you can easily use DATE_FORMAT and set %m,%Y as formatting (second argument).
SELECT replace(date_format(str_to_date('5,2013','%m,%Y'),'%M-%Y'),'-',' ');
As to the format just read the docs: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_date-format. You need an uppercase M for the month name. And use DATE_FORMAT to get from a date to a string.
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(DATE '2013-05-01', '%M %Y');
Assuming that you have 5,2013 stored in your database, you need to use DATE_FORMAT after parsing the string:
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(STR_TO_DATE('5,2013','%m,%Y'), '%b %Y')
Why? Because it seems you don't have a date type stored in the database. So you parse it to date using STR_TO_DATE. This give you the default date format. DATE_FORMAT let you apply other formattings on it.
All avaliable formatting values are documented here: https://www.w3schools.com/sql/func_mysql_str_to_date.asp
In general, I would recommend to think about storing date objects instead of custom date strings like 5,2013. This avoids those castings, because you could directly use DATE_FORMAT. It also has benefits on filtering/ordering and performance. Using date types, you could easily sort by it or filter e.g. everything in month X.
I don't say its not possible with custom strings like 5,2013 but would be more complex and could result in bad performance if the db grows.
You can use the functions:
str_to_date() to convert the string (after concatenating the prefix '1' to your string) to a valid date and then
date_format() to reformat the date:
SELECT date_format(str_to_date(concat('1,', ?),'%d,%m,%Y'), '%b %Y');
Replace ? with your string.
See the demo.
Result:
May 2013
Hi I'm writing queries for MySQL, and now my database has a column containing the timestamp in this format: 7/14/2015 7:57:49 AM, but I need to use the DATEDIFF function, so how can I convert the timestamp into the format like: 2015-7-14 (or 2015-07-14, I'm not sure which one is correct; just the date)?
This should convert your string to just the date in a date format, then you can use DATEDIFF on the date fields in question:
SELECT STR_TO_DATE(LEFT(t,LOCATE(' ',t) - 1), '%m/%d/%Y') FROM my_table;
The LEFT function will take the substring to the left of the space, which is just your date, then STR_TO_DATE will convert that substring to a date the system can use.
(Not knowing your field and table names, I used t and my_table.)
You don't need to. The way MySQL displays timestamps has nothing to do with the way they're stored internally; as long as it's TYPE TIMESTAMP or some compatible type, the DATEDIFF() function will know what to do with it.
TIMESTAMPs are actually stored as a really huge integer representing (I think) milliseconds from Midnight UTC, January 1st, 1970. The display format is determined by a system global variable, and has nothing to do with the actual value.
Converting from a string to a DATETIME or TIMESTAMP is actually also fairly straightforward using the STR_TO_DATE() function; in your case the format string would be something like
STR_TO_DATE('%c/%e/%Y %l:%i:%s %p', datecol)
although you might have to experiment a bit to make it work reliably.
Following is my sql query kindly let me know why is it returning null
Select STR_TO_DATE ('11-APR-74','%e%b%Y')
OR
Select DATE_FORMAT ('11-APR-74','%e%b%Y')
From MySQL STR_TO_DATE function:
The server scans str attempting to match format to it. ... Scanning
starts at the beginning of str and fails if format is found not to
match.
This is why your first query fails: 11-APR-74 does not look like %e%b%Y, so date cannot be parsed. You should do instead
SELECT STR_TO_DATE ('11-APR-74','%e-%b-%Y')
From MySQL Date and Time types:
Although MySQL tries to interpret values in several formats, date
parts must always be given in year-month-day order (for example,
'98-09-04'), rather than in the month-day-year or day-month-year
orders commonly used elsewhere (for example, '09-04-98', '04-09-98').
This is why your second query fails: 74 is not a valid day of month, you should do instead
SELECT DATE_FORMAT ('74-APR-11','%e%b%Y')
Note, that DATE_FORMAT is usually used on DB values, not string literals as you do - to get an output different from the default one.
If you want to convert from string to date
Select STR_TO_DATE ('11-APR-74','%d-%b-%y')
use it like ::
Select STR_TO_DATE ('11-APR-74','%e-%b-%Y')
Because '%e%b%Y' format does not correspond to '11-APR-74' string value (as STR_TO_DATE function expects), and because '11-APR-74' value is of type CHAR, but not DATETIME (as DATE_FORMAT function expects).
If you want to reformat a date represented by a CHAR value, convert it from its original format to DATETIME first, and then convert it to a string of desired format:
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(STR_TO_DATE('11-APR-74','%e-%b-%Y'),'%e%b%Y');
By the way, you could strip dashes with a plain string sunction:
SELECT REPLACE('11-APR-74','-','');
I'm trying to select all columns after a specific date but the trick is the "date" column is varchar
I have this
SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE STR_TO_DATE(birthday,'%m/%d/%Y') > '10-10-2000'
as an example and I want to select all users whos birthday is after the 10/10/2000 but this just returns all rows.
Anybody got a clue what's wrong?
You are comparing a data and a string. I would use CAST:
WHERE STR_TO_DATE(birthday,'%m/%d/%Y') > CAST('2000-10-10' AS date)
Also note that I changed the format of the second to match what mysql expects. You could also use STR_TO_DATE here.
I think mysql dates are usually yyyy-mm-dd which means you should change the string at the end to 2000-10-10.
Try that and let me know if that works.
We need to know what format the string birthday is in, now you're saying it is e.g. 12/31/2001. Is that right?
If you have multiple strings, consider using the same STR_TO_DATE-formatting:
WHERE STR_TO_DATE(birthday, '%m/%/d/%Y') BETWEEN STR_TO_DATE(some_date, '%m/%/d/%Y')
AND STR_TO_DATE(another_date, '%m/%/d/%Y')
More info:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_str-to-date