Convert string from dd/mm/yyyy to yyyy-mm-dd using mysql

I had a large dataset with all the date fields in the format DD/MM/YYYY. I needed to convert them to YYYY-MM-DD . I ran the following queries:

UPDATE TABLE_NAME SET FIELD_NAME = replace(FIELD_NAME, '/', '-');

UPDATE TABLE_NAME SET FIELD_NAME = str_to_date(FIELD_NAME,'%d-%m-%Y');

Hope it helps…

1 Comment

  1. Douglas Sesar

    Hey thank you very much for this post; It was exactly what I needed.

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