i have a huge data with dates as string.
column name date1
datatype varchar
the stored data is in this format:14-Mar-2016 05:44:38pm
Now I have split only date from this string like this: 14-03-2016
By using this: DATE_FORMAT(STR_TO_DATE(gr.date1, '%d-%M-%Y'),'%d-%m-%Y')
Now I am trying to compare the date with this query:
SELECT * FROM
( SELECT date1,DATE_FORMAT(STR_TO_DATE(date1, '%d-%M-%Y'),'%d-%m-%Y') as dateFormatted
FROM `grabt` ) as mTbl WHERE mTbl.dateFormatted >= '19-01-2016'
AND mTbl.dateFormatted <= '25-01-2016'
but it is not working what could be the possible error.?
The timestamp string 14-Mar-2016 05:44:38pm
can be converted to a datetime using the STR_TO_DATE()
along with the format string %d-%b-%Y %r
. We can then obtain only the date portion by wrapping that with DATE()
. Have a look here for a demo to see that this works.
SELECT *
FROM
(
SELECT DATE(STR_TO_DATE(date1, '%d-%b-%Y %r')) AS dateFormatted
FROM grabt
) AS mTbl
WHERE mTbl.dateFormatted BETWEEN '2016-01-19' AND '2016-01-25'
As Gordon already pointed out, you should ideally be using date types not strings for your date calculations. And by the way, use a valid date string when comparing in your WHERE
clause. YYYY-MM-DD
is a valid format, e.g. 2016-01-19
, but 19-01-2016
is not.