Question

I just wanted to know if it was possible to do something like:

CREATE ALIAS SOLR_DATE_FORMAT FOR DATE_FORMAT(date_val,'%Y-%m-%dT%TZ')

DATE_FORMAT(date_val,'%Y-%m-%dT%TZ') exists in MySQL, but I’d like to give it another name and make it a one argument function, because in my unit tests I use another DB (H2) on which I defined such a SOLR_DATE_FORMAT function

Answer 1

You can create your own function:

DELIMITER $$
create function SOLR_DATE_FORMAT( date_val ) 
returns char(20)
begin
   return DATE_FORMAT(date_val,'%Y-%m-%dT%TZ');
end$$
DELIMITER ;

EDITED Fixed returned type. Thanks eggyal!