Look at your query again. You are comparing dates to strings. The dates widen back to strings.
On Fri, Jun 17, 2022, 1:39 PM marc nicole <mk1853...@gmail.com> wrote: > I also tried: > > dataset = >> dataset.where(to_date(dataset.col("Date"),"MM-dd-yyyy").geq("02-03-2012")); > > > But it returned an empty dataset. > > Le ven. 17 juin 2022 à 20:28, Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> a écrit : > >> Same answer as last time - those are strings, not dates. 02-02-2015 as a >> string is before 02-03-2012. >> You apply date function to dates, not strings. >> You have to parse the dates properly, which was the problem in your last >> email. >> >> On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 12:58 PM marc nicole <mk1853...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have a dataset containing a column of dates, which I want to use for >>> filtering. Nothing, from what I have tried, seems to return the exact right >>> solution. >>> Here's my input: >>> >>> +------------ + >>> | Date | >>> +------------ + >>> | 02-08-2019 | >>> +------------ + >>> | 02-07-2019 | >>> +----------------+ >>> | 12-01-2019 | >>> +----------------+ >>> | 02-02-2015 | >>> +----------------+ >>> | 02-03-2012 | >>> +----------------+ >>> | 05-06-2018 | >>> +----------------+ >>> | 02-08-2022 | >>> +----------------+ >>> >>> The code that i have tried (always giving missing dates in the result): >>> >>> dataset = dataset.filter( dataset.col("Date").geq("02-03-2012")); // >>>> not showing the date of *02-02-2015* >>> >>> >>> I tried to apply *date_trunc()* with the first parameter "day" but >>> nothing. >>> >>> I have also compared a converted column (using *to_date()*) with a >>> *literal *of the target date but always returning an empty dataset. >>> >>> How to do that in Java ? >>> >>>