Question

I want to search about this string

*|*

or more specific

LIKE '%*|*%'

but the

*

means the symbol itself. How to escape it?

EDIT: Actually, I was mislead because of other issue in my code. Anyway, you are completely right that in LIKE statement there is no special meaning for the * character.

Answer 1

You don’t need to escape it. * has no special value in a like clause

 select * from yourtable where field LIKE '%*|*%' 

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms179859(v=sql.100).aspx