> "2000-03-30<=@date"

<= only works on numbers.
If you knoiw the dates are always in the form yyyy-mm-dd then you can do

"20000330 &lt;=translate(@date,'-','')"

If you want to use more exotic date forms then probably you want to use
an extension function to get date handling functions from java.

David


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