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 Posted 28 May 2003  10:39:06 
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  28 May 2003  10:39:06 Julio Taylor posted: 
 HeyFor some reason (stupidity) i created one of my date fields in my database as varchar instead of date... 25,000 records later i need to correct the mistake and i have no idea how to do it. If i change the datatype MySQL automatically destroys the dates as it tries to rearrange from the current DD-MM-YYYY format to its standard YYYY-MM-DD.
Does anyone have any ideas how i can somehow change the datatype of these fields and still keep the dates meaningful?
I'm running MySQL 4.01
Thanks!
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