MySQL supports formatting the datetime values into a different formats using DATE_FORMAT() function. This function accepts date/datetime values as a first parameter and returns into a specific format defined as a second parameter. Let us explore this with the following examples which are self-explanatory Define a DATETIME variable SET @date:='2014-06-16…

MySQL supports a lot of DATE and TIME related functions. If you want to find out last day of a month, you can make use of an inbuilt function named LAST_DAY. SET @date:='2012-07-11'; SELECT LAST_DAY(@date) AS last_day; The above code returns the value 2012-07-31 However, there is no inbuilt function…

MySQL developers and DBA often face a very simple challenge when they have to retrieve the time zone of the session which they are connected to. If you look at MySQL documentation and search engine there are many different ways to do the same. In this blog post, I will…

This is a one of the most popular question, I often receive when MySQL Developers are creating a database. There are multiple datatypes which can store DateTime datatype in MySQL. The usual confusion comes up between DATETIME and TIMESTAMP. DATETIME and TIMESTAMP – both of them can store datetime data…