Jesse Shy writes:
> I am push a couple of date fields to mysql via the myODBC driver, however
> the fields are in there original format as JUN01/01 and the like. Right now
> these fields are type CHAR and I cant do any calculations on them. Is there
> a built in function to make this a legitimate date or am I stuck munging it
> with Perl and reinserting it into date fields?
>
MySQL simply can not support any format as a legitimate one.
Dump a table, shuffle the values , change a type to DATE and restore
table.
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