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Casting Text to Date

Hello,

MySQL Version = 3.23.46

I am working with a table which has a date field but type is varchar.
This cannot be changed. I don't have control over this.

I need to run a set of queries based on the date. for example, all
records with a given date, all records with date greater than a given
date etc.

Simply using "select * from media where event_> '09/09/2004'" will not
work.. because mySQL will do a text based comparison.

I tried CAST and CDATE but get errors. FOr example,

query = "SELECT CAST(event_date AS Date) FROM media where id = 15955"

Error : Error 1064: You have a syntax error in your SQL syntax near
'(event_date as date) from media where id=15955' at line 1

query = "select CDATE(event_date) from media where id = 15955"

Error : Error 1064: You have a syntax error in your SQL syntax near
'(event_date) from media where id=15955' at line 1

Any ideas?

Thx in advance.

Bijoy
Jul 20 '05 #1
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