Storing day and month (without year)

Question

I\'m having trouble with figuring out the best way to store some data in my database. I\'ve got to store DD/MM dates in a database, but I\'m not sure of the best way to stor

Answer 1

If you really really want to drop the year, then just make TWO columns, one for day and another for month. Then store them separately.

CREATE TABLE `table-name` (
  `Day` tinyint NOT NULL,
  `Month` tinyint NOT NULL
);

But, it's much better to just use the Date type and then ignore the year in your code.