Question

I want to format existing dates in a column called mydate in a table called empl. However, I am going no where with this. I have tried

SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), mydate,103) from empl

but get a missing expression error.

I want to change the current format in the column which is in the format

dd-mm-yy to mm/dd/yy

EDIT: im using oracle

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

If the datatype of the column is DATE, you can use the TO_CHAR() function:

SELECT to_char(mydate, 'mm/dd/yy')
FROM empl ;