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SQL FORMAT() Function


FORMAT() Function

The FORMAT() function is used to format the display of a field.

SQL FORMAT() Syntax

Parameter Description
column_name Required. The field to be formatted.
format Required. The format specification.

Demonstration Database

In this tutorial, we will use the tutorialpro sample database.

Below is the data from the "Websites" table:

+----+--------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+
| id | name         | url                       | alexa | country |
+----+--------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+
| 1  | Google       | https://www.google.cm/    | 1     | USA     |
| 2  | Taobao       | https://www.taobao.com/   | 13    | CN      |
| 3  | tutorialpro.org      | http://www.tutorialpro.org/    | 4689  | CN      |
| 4  | Weibo        | http://weibo.com/         | 20    | CN      |
| 5  | Facebook     | https://www.facebook.com/ | 3     | USA     |
| 7  | Stackoverflow | http://stackoverflow.com/ |   0 | IND     |
+----+---------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+

SQL FORMAT() Example

The following SQL statement selects the name, url, and formats the date as YYYY-MM-DD from the "Websites" table:

Example

SELECT name, url, DATE_FORMAT(Now(),'%Y-%m-%d') AS date FROM Websites;

Executing the above SQL produces the following output:

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