Re: DATE_FORMAT()

> I've tried SELECT *, DATE_FORMAT('birthdate', '%M %e, %y') FROM table, and
variations thereof.

Did you try to remove quotes around field name? Just try this:
SELECT *, DATE_FORMAT(birthdate, '%M %e, %y') FROM table

Mikhail.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Soza" <solja@xxxxxxx>
To: "MySQL Mailing List" <mysql@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 20:29
Subject: DATE_FORMAT()


> Hey,
>
> I have a table with a 'birthdate' column, stored in DATE format,
YYYY-MM-DD.
> I want queries of this table to present the birthdate in MMMM DD, YYYY
> format. I know how to do DATE_FORMAT('2002-06-29', '%M %e, %Y'), but I
can't
> figure out how to work that into my SQL. I've tried SELECT *,
> DATE_FORMAT('birthdate', '%M %e, %y') FROM table, and variations thereof.
> The manual doesn't really give good examples of how to do this...
>
> Any help would be extremely appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Jason Soza
>
>
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