Comments on: Escape single quotes and wild cards ‘%’ , ‘_’ in MS SQL

By: Nischal Shetty

Nischal Shetty — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:46:37 +0000

@Ashok

you’re welcome buddy

Ashok — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:34:16 +0000

Thank’s yaar,
it increses few more drop in my gyan sagar….

Nischal Shetty — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:41:51 +0000

@Kam99

Thanks for sharing this info here. Thats a bit tricky alright

About the second way of using ESCAPE.. I’m not too sure if its supported in other databases.

kam99 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:20:10 +0000

Just for completeness =)

Have you ever think you’ll need to search-like for square brace itself? Some ‘-![CoolName]!-’ for example?

The solution is a bit tricky – you need to escape only opening [ square.
select * from table where column like '%[[]%’

other workable expressions – like ‘%]%’, ‘%[[]%]%’

Not very obvious, but still logical

(way 2 is possible here too, but how many ORMs support such syntax?)

Nischal Shetty — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:10:36 +0000

My pleasure Alex

Alex — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:21:51 +0000

Thx very much

Nischal Shetty — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:30:03 +0000

Hey thanks a lot for the encouraging comment on your part James. Motivates me to blog more

James Socol — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:41:22 +0000

Thank you! You have no idea how much trouble you saved me.

Who at MS thought this was a good idea? “The rest of the world uses a slash, so we should definitely do something dumb, instead.”

Nischal Shetty — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:40:04 +0000

Hey… I’m glad it did

Thanks — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:09:36 +0000

It really helped me.