MYSQL get Date column as string

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Hello All
I am not sure my question has answer!
I have a MYSQL table with a date column. I want get it in C# as string not MYSQL date time
but matter is I don't know column Name.I know how do it if know column name

SQL

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(X, '%Y/%m/%d') AS  X FROM Y

but i don't know how do it when i don't know column Name?

Posted 21-Jan-14 3:53am

ali majed

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Solution 1

select convert(varchar(50), x) as x from y

if date column is null then use this,

select isnull(convert(varchar(50),x) , '-') as x from y

if its works, then plz accept it n assign rates.

thnx

Posted 21-Jan-14 4:04am

abdul subhan mohammed

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ali majed 21-Jan-14 10:18am

thank for your replay
but i don't know column name i.e X

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Peter Leow · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-21T04:09:00

Solution 2

I assume you know the table name, then you can find out the table structure with column names and their data types:

SQL

show columns from databasename.tablename;

Posted 21-Jan-14 4:09am

Peter Leow

Updated 21-Jan-14 4:10am

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ali majed 21-Jan-14 10:13am

thanks for Reply