How to convert a datetime to a string in MySQL?

In MySQL, you can use the DATE_FORMAT function to convert datetime data into a string.

The grammar is as follows:

DATE_FORMAT(date, format)

In this case, the date is the value of the date or time to be converted, and the format is the format of the date or time.

For example, converting datetime data type to a string and specifying the format as “YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS”:

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(datetime_column, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%i:%s') AS datetime_string 
FROM table_name;

datetime_column is the name of a column of type datetime, while table_name is the name of the table.

The example above will create a new column called datetime_string, which will contain the results of converting the data of type datetime to a string.

If you need to convert data of datetime type into a different format of string, you can use different format codes according to your needs, please refer to the official documentation of MySQL for details.