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SQL FORMAT () Function

FORMAT () Function

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

SQL FORMAT () syntax

SELECT FORMAT(column_name,format) FROM table_name;

参数 描述
column_name 必需。要格式化的字段。
format 必需。规定格式。

The demo database

In this tutorial, we will use w3big sample database.

The following is a selected "Websites" table data: 

+----+--------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+
| id | name         | url                       | alexa | country |
+----+--------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+
| 1  | Google       | https://www.google.cm/    | 1     | USA     |
| 2  | 淘宝          | https://www.taobao.com/   | 13    | CN      |
| 3  | 本教程      | http://www.w3big.com/    | 4689  | CN      |
| 4  | 微博          | http://weibo.com/         | 20    | CN      |
| 5  | Facebook     | https://www.facebook.com/ | 3     | USA     |
| 7  | stackoverflow | http://stackoverflow.com/ |   0 | IND     |
+----+---------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+

SQL FORMAT () examples

The following SQL statement select name from the "Websites" list, url and formatted as YYYY-MM-DD date:

Examples

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

Execute the above SQL output results are as follows: