Format date in MySQL to return MonthName, Year

Question

I have rows in a table that I need to order by date. Easy enough, use the date datatype to store them, ORDER BY date blah blah.

However, I'm trying to get these rows, and easily convert the date to MonthName, Year

If I had stored a row's date as 2011-11-16, I would want to extract this (using PHP) and print out:

 November, 2011

Answer 1

Try this

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(`date`,'%M %Y') AS showdate FROM table

Answer 2

You can get date year and monthName formate using the following query.

SELECT DATE_FORMAT("2017-06-15", "%Y %M") as 'Date';

If you need other formats apply following combinations.

Syntax: DATE_FORMAT(date, format_mask)

Format  Description
%a  Abbreviated weekday name (Sun to Sat)
%b  Abbreviated month name (Jan to Dec)
%c  Numeric month name (0 to 12)
%D  Day of the month as a numeric value, followed by suffix (1st, 2nd, 3rd, ...)
%d  Day of the month as a numeric value (01 to 31)
%e  Day of the month as a numeric value (0 to 31)
%f  Microseconds (000000 to 999999)
%H  Hour (00 to 23)
%h  Hour (00 to 12)
%I  Hour (00 to 12)
%i  Minutes (00 to 59)
%j  Day of the year (001 to 366)
%k  Hour (0 to 23)
%l  Hour (1 to 12)
%M  Month name in full (January to December)
%m  Month name as a numeric value (00 to 12)
%p  AM or PM
%r  Time in 12 hour AM or PM format (hh:mm:ss AM/PM)
%S  Seconds (00 to 59)
%s  Seconds (00 to 59)
%T  Time in 24 hour format (hh:mm:ss)
%U  Week where Sunday is the first day of the week (00 to 53)
%u  Week where Monday is the first day of the week (00 to 53)
%V  Week where Sunday is the first day of the week (01 to 53). Used with %X
%v  Week where Monday is the first day of the week (01 to 53). Used with %X
%W  Weekday name in full (Sunday to Saturday)
%w  Day of the week where Sunday=0 and Saturday=6
%X  Year for the week where Sunday is the first day of the week. Used with %V
%x  Year for the week where Monday is the first day of the week. Used with %V
%Y  Year as a numeric, 4-digit value
%y  Year as a numeric, 2-digit value

Answer 3

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(date_col, '%M, %Y')
FROM   tbl
-- WHERE ??
ORDER  BY date_col;

The manual knows more about that.