AW: Importing date data from text files

2002-09-19 Thread Moestl, Wolfgang
Hi Andrew, DATE_FORMAT is the function you're looking for. Check the documentation on it, chapter 6.3.4 "Date and Time Functions". DATE_FORMAT works like the following: SELECT DATE_FORMAT('1997-10-04 22:23:00', '%W %M %Y'); BTW, SQL Server offers the CONVERT function for this purpose. No nee

Importing date data from text files

2002-09-19 Thread Andrew Whittam - JM Data Services
Hi - I am relatively new to MySQL, previous experience is mainly Visual FoxPro and MS SQL2000. I have a client who supplies data in text files. In numerous of these files and subsequent tables there are date fields. In the UK we use the date format of dd/mm/. I understand that MySQL on