Question

I am trying to run a query like

UPDATE myTable SET Name='B&L' WHERE ID = 1;

The problem is I am getting the following error:

Unclosed quotation mark after the character string ‘B’.

My column is of type varChar and as you can see I am escaping the string with ‘quotes’. How can I get the & symbol to insert?

Thanks.

Answer 1

For MSSQL try escaping the & by enclosing it in square brackets so it would become:

UPDATE myTable SET Name='B[&]L' WHERE ID = 1;

Or you could use the ESCAPE statment like so:

UPDATE myTable SET Name='B\&L' WHERE ID = 1 ESCAPE '\';