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Asked: 2026-06-11T00:41:36+00:00

I’m trying to select all columns after a specific date but the trick is

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I’m trying to select all columns after a specific date but the trick is the “date” column is varchar

I have this 

SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE STR_TO_DATE(birthday,'%m/%d/%Y') > '10-10-2000'

as an example and I want to select all users whos birthday is after the 10/10/2000 but this just returns all rows.

Anybody got a clue what’s wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You are comparing a data and a string. I would use CAST: 

    WHERE STR_TO_DATE(birthday,'%m/%d/%Y') > CAST('2000-10-10' AS date)

    Also note that I changed the format of the second to match what mysql expects. You could also use STR_TO_DATE here.

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