Drupal 8.x

Hi,
how can I write this query on Drupal8?
"SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE DATE(startdate)=CURDATE()"

This is not working:

$query = db_select('mytable', 't')
->fields('t')
->condition('DATE(startdate)=CURDATE()');
->execute()
->fetchAssoc();
return array();

Is it still possible to write the query as a string and launch it without db_select?

Thank you

Claudio

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Code:

[On CentOS 6 x64]
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