I have a mysql db, which has a column date, but it’s varchar and formatted like this ’01/05/2012′ but i need to convert it to datetime format because i will do some datetime comparisons.
What can i do?
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I have a mysql db, which has a column date, but it’s varchar and formatted like this ’01/05/2012′ but i need to convert it to datetime format because i will do some datetime comparisons.
What can i do?
Thanks
Use
STR_TO_DATE():