You can use the `DATE_FORMAT()` function in MariaDB to convert a date to a specific format. The `DATE_FORMAT()` function allows you to format the date and time in a number of ways.
Suppose you have a date in the format “YYYY-MM-DD” and you want to convert it to the format “MM/DD/YYYY”. You can do it as follows:
```
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(‘2022-02-17’, ‘%m/%d/%Y’);
```
This will output: `02/17/2022`.
The `DATE_FORMAT()` function uses format specifiers which have their own special meaning:
- ‘%Y’ represents the year as a numeric, four-digit value.
- ‘%m’ represents the month as a numeric value (01, 02, …, 12).
- ‘%d’ represents the day of the month.
Some other examples:
- Convert date to DD-MM-YYYY format.
\`\`\`sql SELECT DATE\_FORMAT(‘2022-02-17’, ‘%d-%m-%Y’); \`\`\`- Convert date and time to DD-MM-YYYY HH:MI:SS format.
\`\`\`sql SELECT DATE\_FORMAT(‘2022-02-17 13:45:30’, ‘%d-%m-%Y %H:%i:%s’); \`\`\` Remember to replace ’2022-02-17’ with the column that contains the date information in your actual SQL query.