How to change MySQL date format for database?

Question

We are using a MySQL database with FileMaker. It appears that when FileMaker is reading the MySQL tables, it will only accept dates in the format of m/d/y.

Is there

Answer 1

SELECT COUNT(field_name) AS count_it FROM table_name WHERE DATE_FORMAT(date_field,'%Y-%m-%d') = DATE_FORMAT(CURDATE(), '%Y-%m-%d')-- to count records for today.