2017/02/18 ... debt:
Is there a formula to change the format of the data in a single field in
every record of a table? She has a "timestamp” in a text field formatted as
2017|02|16|04|58|42 and she wants to convert it to a more human readable format like
2017-02-16 @ 04:58:42
It now occurs to me, long after a working answer has been found, that
because MySQL is none too picky about the strings that it turns into
timestamps, that adding a DATETIME field, TS say, and thus updating is
enough programming:
UPDATE tbl SET TS=timestampFormatted_CharacterStringfield;
MySQL takes any punctuation for a separator, and cares only about the
numerals between the separators.
There is also the function STR_TO_DATE which takes a string to convert
and a format string.
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