Esteemed monks,

I have an application that imports a CSV file into a MySQL table where all fields are varchar type. One field has a date in the format 'MM/DD/CCYY hh:mm' where leading zeroes are typically not present. This needs to be converted to something that MySQL will swallow - such as: 'CCYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss' where all zeroes are required.

I can get the various parts of the time using split and then rebuilding the string. BUT there are typically somewhere between 7000 and 500000 records in the table.

I am assuming that doing a SELECT and getting the key and the date as text field into a HASH - then convert the date format - the do an UPDATE will be the best way of doing the change?

App is in Perl 5.8.0 using DBI/DBD-MySQL.

Your advice is sought on

jdtoronto

In reply to Convert date format in database table. by jdtoronto

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