working with dates in oracle

I need to write a query in oracle 8i that will allow me to select some rows of date within a date range. In MSSQL I would do something like "select f1,f2 from tablea where lastdate >= '01/01/2002'" . How do I accomplish the same type of query in Oracle. Received on Mon Jul 28 2003 - 04:21:43 CEST