Changing Date Type

2004-11-05 Thread Amit_Wadhwa
I know that defining a Data datatype in a table renders the date in the form that the database is set to, Ie. -mm-dd by default. I want this to remain, but for one particular table, I want to set it to d-mmm-yy Eg. 5-nov-04 or 15-nov-04 instead of 2004-11-05 like the rest of my tables. I do

Re: Changing Date Type

2004-11-05 Thread Martijn Tonies
I know that defining a Data datatype in a table renders the date in the form that the database is set to, Ie. -mm-dd by default. I want this to remain, but for one particular table, I want to set it to d-mmm-yy Eg. 5-nov-04 or 15-nov-04 instead of 2004-11-05 like the rest of my

RE: Changing Date Type

2004-11-05 Thread Amit_Wadhwa
Yes, but I want to be able to insert into the column dates in the format d-mmm-yy -Original Message- From: Martijn Tonies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 8:38 PM To: Wadhwa, Amit; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Changing Date Type I know that defining a Data

Re: Changing Date Type

2004-11-05 Thread Martijn Tonies
Yes, but I want to be able to insert into the column dates in the format d-mmm-yy That's a different story. Question though: why? Read some docs: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Date_and_time_types.html btw, why is your e-mail important or high priority to me or the list? With regards,

RE: Changing Date Type

2004-11-05 Thread Amit_Wadhwa
. -Original Message- From: Martijn Tonies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 9:44 PM To: Wadhwa, Amit; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Changing Date Type Yes, but I want to be able to insert into the column dates in the format d-mmm-yy That's a different story

Re: Changing Date Type

2004-11-05 Thread Duncan Hill
On Friday 05 November 2004 15:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] might have typed: Yes, but I want to be able to insert into the column dates in the format d-mmm-yy MySQL has a date format function that you can use to translate the format. The format in the table is always -mm-dd. Use translation