Question

I know for selecting the records with ‘a’ as the second letter in a column we write the following query:-

Select * from table where column1 like '_a%';

For selecting the records with ‘a’ as the third letter in a column we write:-

Select * from table where column1 like '__a%';

Now I want select the records where the column1 contains ‘_'(underscore) as the second character.For example, I want to select the records with column1 like A_John, B_John, A_Jai and so on. What is the escape character I can use in this case. How can I do that? Please help.

Answer 1

Use:

 Select * from books where title like '\_\_a%';

for two underscore at first and

Select * from books where title like '\_a%';

for single underscore at first and