Re: DATE_FORMAT()

On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:29:35 -0800, Jason Soza wrote:
>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
>
try  SELECT DATE_FORMAT(birthdate, '%M %e, %y') formatedDate FROM table

formattedDate should contain the information you want
-- this can be any thing.. you are just giving a name that points to the data

-z

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z, admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 06/28/2002


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