BigQuery - how to compare a “date” column (using legacy SQL)?

Question

I have a BigQuery table with a column Date which is a date type. I am trying to run this query:

SELECT * FROM dataset.table_name WHERE          


        

Answer 1

This solution wasn't working for me:

DATE(Date) = "2016-07-11"

Instead, I had to use:

Date = TIMESTAMP("2016-07-11")