Decomposing Dates or Times Using String Functions substrings.
mysql> mysql> mysql> CREATE TABLE datetime_val -> ( -> dt DATETIME -> ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> mysql> mysql> INSERT INTO datetime_val (dt) VALUES('1970-01-01 00:00:00'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> INSERT INTO datetime_val (dt) VALUES('1987-03-05 12:30:15'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> INSERT INTO datetime_val (dt) VALUES('1999-12-31 09:00:00'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> INSERT INTO datetime_val (dt) VALUES('2000-06-04 15:45:30'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> mysql> SELECT * FROM datetime_val; +---------------------+ | dt | +---------------------+ | 1970-01-01 00:00:00 | | 1987-03-05 12:30:15 | | 1999-12-31 09:00:00 | | 2000-06-04 15:45:30 | +---------------------+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> mysql> mysql> SELECT dt, -> LEFT(dt,4) AS year, -> MID(dt,9,2) AS day, -> RIGHT(dt,2) AS second -> FROM datetime_val; +---------------------+------+------+--------+ | dt | year | day | second | +---------------------+------+------+--------+ | 1970-01-01 00:00:00 | 1970 | 01 | 00 | | 1987-03-05 12:30:15 | 1987 | 05 | 15 | | 1999-12-31 09:00:00 | 1999 | 31 | 00 | | 2000-06-04 15:45:30 | 2000 | 04 | 30 | +---------------------+------+------+--------+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> mysql> drop table datetime_val; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)