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

I have tried but above not working after research found below the solution.

SELECT * FROM my_table where DATE(start_date) > '2011-01-01';

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