date format like 'jan 2010'

Hi in my table i am saving the date as '2010-12-01' i,e but i want to convert the above 开发者_运维知识库date as 'Dec 2010'..can u please suggest me how to convert it?

thanks in advance

If you are using php then do the following:

echo date("M Y", strtotime("2010-12-01"));

Or in MySQL:

SELECT DATE_FORMAT('2011-01-12', '%M %Y')

Updated for "Jan 2011":

SELECT DATE_FORMAT('2011-01-12', '%b %Y')

Remember, if you want to use a different language for phps date function, you can use

setlocale (LC_TIME, "da_DK");