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Q: Alter

Hi

I have a table that contains date/time together in one field. Is it possible
to ALTER the table so that this field now only contains the time (or date)?

Thanks in advance

Geoff

P.S. If possible I'd like to do this during the SELECT stage.
Jul 20 '05 #1
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Geoff Jones wrote:
I have a table that contains date/time together in one field. Is it possible
to ALTER the table so that this field now only contains the time (or date)?


I think you can do this atleast so that you first use alter table to
create new field to your table. Then use UPDATE-command with concat() to
set the correct value for the new field, and then again alter table to
remove old date and time columns.

Info about concat():
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/String_functions.html
Jul 20 '05 #2

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