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Asked: 2026-05-16T20:45:25+00:00

I have MySQL with below settings Server version: 5.0.77 MySQL client version: 5.0.41 Protocol

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I have MySQL with below settings
Server version: 5.0.77
MySQL client version: 5.0.41
Protocol version: 10
MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
MySQL connection collation: utf8_unicode_ci

I am just doing a simple query and it returned wrong
SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE mydate >= ‘2010-08-30’

Today is 8/30 and I have 1 row with mydate is ‘2010-06-01’ and that row was selected. Why?
If I do this, it returns zero record which is correct
SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE mydate >= NOW()

The first query was executed correctly in local but not live server.

How do I go about troubleshooting this? Is it because of different MySQL version, time setting, server setting… What am I looking for?

Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    In MYSQL you should not use single quotes ” around your date, this causes the MYSQL server to interpret your entry as a string rather than a date. I would also suggest using date() around your date entry in the database to ensure that it is indeed a date.

    Here is an example of how I would perform your above query in MYSQL:

    SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE date(mydate) >= (2010-08-30)

    This query should return your desired results.

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