Order by date (varchar)?

Question

I want to order by date.

e.g.

table_date
February 2011
January 2011
December 2010

I\'ve already tried:

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Answer 1

If you must store the dates in a varchar which as others pointed out is not recommended, you could use:

SELECT table_date FROM tables ORDER BY STR_TO_DATE(table_date, '%M %Y') DESC;