how to format date field in MYSQL

Question

All,

I need to retrieve the date in some specific format in MYSQL. For eg,

it should return month/year(10/2009).

My MYSQL version is 5.1.

Thanks

Answer 1

date_format(yourdatefield, '%c/%Y') as formatted_date

will do that- http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_date-format