Wild Card search issue on date

Hi All,

I have a two dataset

dateset1 query as below

SELECT     crmi_ebeventid, crmi_ebcapacity AS 'Event Capacity', crmi_ebstartdate, crmi_ebvenuename AS 'Venue'
FROM         crmi_ebevent

with filter crmi_ebstartdate like @StartDate

dateset2 query as below

select * from  crmi_ebevent
WHERE     crmi_ebstartdate = @StartDate

Parameters Startdate of datetype date/Time

but when i run the report i get the error as  below

Any help much appreciated

Thanks

Pradnya07