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

Try below

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

My additional recommendation would be to not to use reserved words as column's name, I think if your column was named properly - your original WHERE clause would worked perfectly and you would not need to use workaround with DATE()=""

Answer 2

This solution wasn't working for me:

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

Instead, I had to use:

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