Question

i am almost emberassed to ask this i am having trouble entering the query below, i want to enter a date value with a different format (dd/mm/yy). mysql is tired and doesnt want to work with me entering a value, but in the wrong format. i put the string 03-08-2009 in a variable(java) and use ? prepared satement to execute the query .

INSERT INTO project (code, sdatum) VALUES(
            12, STR_TO_DATE('03-08-2009', '%d/%m/%Y'));

this is what mysql inserts into the column table

’12’,’2009-08-03′

PS: i am using the workbench

Answer 1

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As documented under The DATE, DATETIME, and TIMESTAMP Types:

MySQL retrieves and displays DATE values in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format.

If you want to retrieve dates formatted in some other way, you must apply DATE_FORMAT() to your select expression:

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(sdatum, '%d/%m/%Y') FROM project