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

Adding this since this was not mentioned.

SELECT * FROM `la_schedule` WHERE date(start_date) > date('2012-11-18');

Because that's what actually works for me. Adding date() function on both comparison values.