Change MYSQL date format

Question

I have a table in MYSQL of which 3 columns have dates and they are formatted in the not desired way.

Currently I have: mm/dd/yyyy and I want to change t

Answer 1

Your current datatype for your column is not date right? you need to convert it to date first using STR_TO_DATE() and convert back to string

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(STR_TO_DATE(colName, '%c/%d/%Y'), '%d/%c/%Y')
FROM table1

SQLFiddle Demo