title: Storing date of birth in MySQL
body: <p>I have two options to store the DOB (date of birth) in MySQL. Which is the better method from the following?</p>
  
  <p>Storing DOB using <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/datetime.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Date Type</a> in MySQL,</p>
  
  <p>OR</p>
  
  <p>Storing DOB values separately in different fields like Day in one field, month in another and year in another?</p>
  
  <p>If the client wants to display the month and date only, is it possible to retrieve it, if we store DOB in date type of MySQL?</p>