Re: Changing a field's data in every record

2017-02-19 Thread debt
> On Feb 19, 2017, at 3:50 AM, Brad Barnett wrote: > > SUBSTRING_INDEX Thanks a million, Brad! That works perfectly. SUBSTRING_INDEX didn’t come up in my searches so this is the first I’ve heard of it. Also, as you could see, it wasn’t a true timestamp. It is only used for

Re: Changing a field's data in every record

2017-02-19 Thread Brad Barnett
Erm. I've seen some weird responses to this. Yes, you can do this. First -- get the data into a usable format. Then, put it into a usable format (eg, timestamp for datetime field). Read up on how mysql interprets date/time data on fields. And, create a new timestamp or date field. Then, do

Re: Changing a field's data in every record

2017-02-19 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 19.02.2017 um 11:11 schrieb Peter Brawley: On 2/18/2017 15:13, debt wrote: I’ve been asked to post a question here for a friend. 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 201

Re: Changing a field's data in every record

2017-02-19 Thread Peter Brawley
On 2/18/2017 15:13, debt wrote: I’ve been asked to post a question here for a friend. 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 conve