MYSQL and PHP cast() function...

Hi there, I have been trying to get a solution to this select query from all over the web and have found no answer so I was hoping someone here could help out. The date field of the database is imported from a text file with the date format 'dd-mm-yyyy hh:mm:ss' and I only want to display the first 11 characters of the field. The select statment is am using is $query2 = "select Title, cast(Date as varchar(11)) Date, Artist, Country, RecordCompany, CatalogueNumber, Composer FROM recording where title regexp '$keyword'"; However when I try to use this I get an error about the cast function as follows: You have an error in your SQL syntax near '(Date as varchar(11)) Date, Artist, Country, RecordCompany, CatalogueNumber, Com' at line 1 Can anyone help me with the cast() function. I have gotten this to work on an internal MSSQL server but not on the MySQL server. thanks Morgan Bardon