How to use greater than operator with date?

Question

No idea what is going on here. Here is the query, right from phpMyAdmin:

SELECT * FROM `la_schedule` WHERE \'start_date\' >\'2012-11-18\';

Answer 1

In my case my column was a datetime it kept giving me all records. What I did is to include time, see below example

SELECT * FROM my_table where start_date > '2011-01-01 01:01:01';