Hello. I have a generic table used for many different generic
functions. the fields are mainly varchar's but one of these varchars
contains dates (in the format dd/mm/yyyy) for one reason or another.
My question is, can I perform a query on this table, using date
functions on this varchar field? I.e. search for the latest date?
Thanks, Chris
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On 2 Aug, 10:41, Chris Tate-Davies <christatedav.. .@gmail.comwrot e:
Hello. I have a generic table used for many different generic
functions. the fields are mainly varchar's but one of these varchars
contains dates (in the format dd/mm/yyyy) for one reason or another.
My question is, can I perform a query on this table, using date
functions on this varchar field? I.e. search for the latest date?
Thanks, Chris
You can by using the STR_TO_DATE function, but it won't be very
efficient.
On 2 Aug, 10:41, Chris Tate-Davies <christatedav.. .@gmail.comwrot e:
Hello. I have a generic table used for many different generic
functions. the fields are mainly varchar's but one of these varchars
contains dates (in the format dd/mm/yyyy) for one reason or another.
My question is, can I perform a query on this table, using date
functions on this varchar field? I.e. search for the latest date?
Thanks, Chris
BTH, this is NOT a php question.
You should post questions like this in comp.database.m ysql
(the name of the group gives you the hint)
On 2 Aug, 11:01, Captain Paralytic <paul_laut...@y ahoo.comwrote:
On 2 Aug, 10:41, Chris Tate-Davies <christatedav.. .@gmail.comwrot e:
Hello. I have a generic table used for many different generic
functions. the fields are mainly varchar's but one of these varchars
contains dates (in the format dd/mm/yyyy) for one reason or another.
My question is, can I perform a query on this table, using date
functions on this varchar field? I.e. search for the latest date?
Thanks, Chris
BTH, this is NOT a php question.
You should post questions like this in comp.database.m ysql
(the name of the group gives you the hint)
I am running the query in PHP. I wasn't sure if it would give me more
options.
But thanks for your help.
Chris
bill wrote:
Q1: Why the WHERE tempcol LIKE '%/%/%' clause ?
It would seem that it would work without it.
Q2: Why 3 %'s ?
A1: "WHERE tempcol LIKE '%/%/%'" means "where tempcol has the format
something-slash-something-slash-something". In other words, when tempcol
looks a bit like it could be a date.
A2: A date has three components: day, month and year.
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