How to change date format inside table in MySQL?

Question

I want my DateOfBirth inside a Table to be displayed in dd/mm/yy format. I know we can retrieve dates in different format. But how could I change the format in the table itself?

Answer 1

Why would you bother how it is stored? Just turn it to whatever format you need when retrieving it. If for some reasons you need a formatted version there just place it in a varchar column and apply custom format while inserting. Just mind that this way any date operations on it become harder and incredibly inefficient.

Answer 2

You can do it like this SQLFIDDLE

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(dates, '%D of %M, %Y') FROM datetbl;

Reference https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_date-format