The date is already in the correct format but it is stored as
varchar(10)
Current looks like:21/04/2014
Yes, I have a column that has dates but is set to varchar as it wasn't being used now I need to convert these into dates.
If you are trying to get a date form from a string form of date, then
select str_to_date( date_column, '%d/%m/%Y' ) as date from table_name
This will return 21/04/2014
as 2014-04-21
, regular default date format in MySQL
.