Question

I have a mysql table with two columns – one containing a year in YYYY format, and another containing a month in full name format ‘ January’, ‘May’, ‘September’ etc.

I need to extract each row from the table in date order, and so need to convert/combine these two values into UNIX timestamp format.

Does anyone have any clues how to do this?

Answer 1

Try this:

order by str_to_date(CONCAT_WS('-', YearCol, MonthCol), '%Y-%M-01')