The MySQL DATE() function is a built-in function you use to extract just the date portion from a DATE or DATETIME value. Learn how to use the DATE() function in this blog post…
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MySQL DATE() Function Syntax
The MySQL DATE() function accepts 1 argument and has a simple syntax:
DATE(date or datetime expression)
In this query on the Sakila database ‘category’ table, we can see using the DATE() with the ‘last_update’ column as the argument, returns just the date portion:
mysql> SELECT last_update, DATE(last_update)
-> FROM category
-> LIMIT 5;
+---------------------+-------------------+
| last_update | DATE(last_update) |
+---------------------+-------------------+
| 2006-02-15 04:46:27 | 2006-02-15 |
| 2006-02-15 04:46:27 | 2006-02-15 |
| 2006-02-15 04:46:27 | 2006-02-15 |
| 2006-02-15 04:46:27 | 2006-02-15 |
| 2006-02-15 04:46:27 | 2006-02-15 |
+---------------------+-------------------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)
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