mysql varchar转年,MYSQL：如何将包含日期的VARCHAR列转换为DATE列？

I have a large table of birthdays that I want to convert from a varchar column to a date column.

The table SQL is:

CREATE TABLE `birthdays` (

`id` bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,

`uid` bigint(20) DEFAULT NULL,

`birthday_date` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

PRIMARY KEY (`id`)

) ENGINE=MyISAM

The birthday date is stored in one of two ways: strings like "05/26/1994" or sometimes "03/14" (for people who don't want to reveal their birth year).

What is the best way to create another table and store the birthdays in a date column? Is it possible to do this just using MySQL (and avoid using PHP or some other intermediary)?

I have found a STR_TO_DATE function in MySQL. Should I use this?

Thanks!

解决方案SELECT IF(birthday_date RLIKE '[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{4}',STR_TO_DATE(birthday_date,'%m/%d/%Y'),STR_TO_DATE(birthday_date,'%m/%d'));

This will result in dates like 0000-03-14 for rows that have no year entered. Your server needs to be configured to allow invalid dates though (see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-sql-mode.html )