How to place a thousand separator in MySQL records?

Use the FORMAT() method for this. Let us first create a table −

mysql> create table DemoTable    -> (    -> Amount DECIMAL(10,2)    -> ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.45 sec)

Insert some records in the table using insert command −

mysql> insert into DemoTable values(84848757.60); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.14 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable values(95868685.50); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.15 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable values(4242342.36); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.21 sec)

Display all records from the table using select statement −

mysql> select *from DemoTable;

Output

+-------------+ | Amount      | +-------------+ | 84848757.60 | | 95868685.50 | |  4242342.36 | +-------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Following is the query to set separator in MySQL −

mysql> select format(Amount,2) from DemoTable;

Output

+------------------+ | format(Amount,2) | +------------------+ | 84,848,757.60    | | 95,868,685.50    | | 4,242,342.36     | +------------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)