# Possible to change joined date?

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 23, 2015, 6:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-change-joined-date/31331 "2015-07-23T06:52:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 7:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-change-joined-date/31331/4 "2015-07-23T07:36:37Z")

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Yeah good point I did some searching but nothing good came up immediately. We should have a dedicated howto topic for entering the container, and running an arbitrary SQL query. @techapj can you assist?

It’s kind of like this

> [@Edit a user preference for everyone or a subset of users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-a-user-setting-for-all-discourse-users/25162):
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> bookmark This guide explains how to edit a user preference for everyone or a subset of users in Discourse. person_raising_hand Required user level: System Administrator warning Console access is required. If you need to update the user preference for all of your users or a large subset of users, you can do so via the rails console. Summary In this guide, you’ll learn: How to access the Rails console for making bulk changes Examples of modifying user preferences How to identify se…

But more generic. That’s basically impossible to find if you want to just “run a query” against your Discourse database.

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