CONCAT return BOLB at server side

Question

Sample original value of inputDate

inputDate
2013-11-19
2013-11-20
2013-11-22
2013-12-04

i want the result to be return in:

Nov-2013
Nov-2013
Nov-2013
Dec-2013

im using the query as below to get the result.

SELECT CONCAT(DATE_FORMAT(inputDate, '%b'), '-' , YEAR(inpuDate)) AS entryDate FROM table

• datatype of inputDate is 'Date'
• running at local has no problem
• running at server result return "BLOB".

how to show the result at server side? i double check the datatype, and restore the data from server to my local. nothing helped. there is no 'NULL' value inside this field

Answer 1

Why not just do (%Y will give you the year part):

select DATE_FORMAT(inputDate, '%b-%Y') AS entryDate from `table`