laravel mysql in_php in laravel ，what is wrong with my mysql statement？

$res = DB::connection('mysql_business')->table('t_activity')

->select('SELECT app_id,title ,created_at,id

FROM t_activity

WHERE created_at > ? ORDER BY created_at DESC', [ '2018-04-01 20:11:12']);

var_dump($res);//print some database.php information 囧

print many strings like this

object(IlluminateDatabaseQueryBuilder)#68 (22) {

["connection"]=>

object(IlluminateDatabaseMySqlConnection)#58 (16) {

["pdo":protected]=>

object(Closure)#57 (2) {

["static"]=>

array(1) {

["config"]=>

array(12) {

["driver"]=>

string(5) "mysql"

["port"]=>

string(4) ""************************""

["database"]=>

string(14) "************************"

["username"]=>

string(4) "root"

["password"]=>

string(12) ""************************""

["charset"]=>

string(4) "utf8"

["collation"]=>

string(15) ""************************""

["prefix"]=>

string(0) ""

["strict"]=>

bool(false)

["engine"]=>

NULL

["name"]=>

string(14) ""************************""

["host"]=>

string(33) ""************************""

}

it just print information in database.php , not the answer I want, why？？

and below code is it right

$ret = DB::connection('mysql_business')->table('t_activity')->where('created_at', '>', '2018-04-01 20:11:12')

->select('app_id', 'title', 'created_at', 'id')->get();