Question

I have a char field which is having Date in it as ’26-Nov-2011′
I want this date to be printed in YYYY-MM-DD format.

I used following date conversion which is not allowing me to do.

select date_format('26-Nov-2011','%d-%b-%y')

returns Null.

I know date_format function can accept date in YYYY-DD-MM format but
Please let me know how to convert a Character to Required Date Format

Answer 1

Try this:

SELECT STR_TO_DATE('26-Nov-2011', '%d-%b-%Y') dte;

Output:

2011-11-26