Importing a CSV to MySQL with different date format

Question

I\'m doing my first CSV import into MySQL and noticed that the date in the CSV has the format 31-Jan-2011. How can I convert this to 2011-01-31 so

Answer 1

You can replace format during importing data from the CSV file, for example -

LOAD DATA INFILE 'file_name.csv'
INTO TABLE table_name
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ';'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
(id, column2, column3, @date_time_variable) -- read one of the field to variable
SET date_time_column = STR_TO_DATE(@date_time_variable, '%d-%b-%Y'); -- format this date-time variable

It will format the string like '31-Jan-2011' to a correct DATETIME data type.

More information here - LOAD DATA INFILE Syntax.