Sim Zacks wrote:
> To retrieve the above example, I needed to query:
> select * from filetable where filename like '\\\\\\\\server\\\\dir%'
>
> Is this a bug or is there a reason for this?
>
> Sim
There's a reason. With like queries, if you want to search for the
literal characters % or ? they need to be escaped with a \. So
essentially, the entire string is \ escaped twice. The good news is,
you can redefine the escape character in your query.
eg
select * from filetable where filename like '\\\\server\\dir%' escape ''
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