Month name from string formatted date in mysql

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Hello,

I have month and year in a varchar field and I want to retrieve Month Name from this field data.

this field month hold the data as 04-2020, 05-2020 etc.

I want to get April, May from these values.

I tried the query but it returns null.

Please help.

What I have tried:

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SELECT MONTHNAME(date_format(str_to_date(I.month, '%m-%Y'), '%M, %Y')) as month from invoices I

Posted 21-Feb-21 3:04am

nyt1972

Updated 21-Feb-21 3:39am

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RickZeeland · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-21T03:39:00

Solution 1

Try this:

SELECT MONTHNAME(STR_TO_DATE("04-2020", "%m-%Y"));

SQL Fiddle[^]

You can test with MariaDb here: MariaDB 10.4 | db<>fiddle[^]

Posted 21-Feb-21 3:39am

RickZeeland

Updated 21-Feb-21 21:00pm

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nyt1972 22-Feb-21 1:34am

It say Warning: #1411 Incorrect datetime value: '04-2020' for function str_to_date and return NULL value too.

My MySQL version shows:

mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.4.14-MariaDB

RickZeeland 22-Feb-21 2:58am

Maybe add "01-" at the begin of "04-2020" ?

nyt1972 22-Feb-21 3:01am

sorry I type %M instead of %m

RickZeeland 22-Feb-21 3:01am

To err is human :)