MySQL Select First Day of Year and Month

Question

How to find first day of year in SELECT?

SELECT `DATE`,`SomeValue1`,`SomeValue2`
FROM `SomeTableName`
WHERE (`DATE` >= [...first day of the year in date f         


        

Answer 1

Don't know why but in my case when browsing through 3 mln. records the fastest method is:

where `DATE` >= CONCAT(YEAR(NOW()),'-01-01')