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nando updated FLINK-6895: ------------------------- Comment: was deleted (was: Do you mean the string to format? It can be a column reference, for example: {code:sql} UPDATE `table` SET `column_as_date` = str_to_date( `column_varchar`, '%d-%m-%Y' ); {code}) > Add STR_TO_DATE supported in SQL > -------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-6895 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6895 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: Table API & SQL > Affects Versions: 1.4.0 > Reporter: sunjincheng > Assignee: Jiayi Liao > Priority: Major > Labels: pull-request-available > > STR_TO_DATE(str,format) This is the inverse of the DATE_FORMAT() function. It > takes a string str and a format string format. STR_TO_DATE() returns a > DATETIME value if the format string contains both date and time parts, or a > DATE or TIME value if the string contains only date or time parts. If the > date, time, or datetime value extracted from str is illegal, STR_TO_DATE() > returns NULL and produces a warning. > * Syntax: > STR_TO_DATE(str,format) > * Arguments > **str: - > **format: - > * Return Types > DATAETIME/DATE/TIME > * Example: > STR_TO_DATE('01,5,2013','%d,%m,%Y') -> '2013-05-01' > SELECT STR_TO_DATE('a09:30:17','a%h:%i:%s') -> '09:30:17' > * See more: > ** [MySQL| > https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_str-to-date] -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)