Question

In an SQL table I have following columns

id, title, content

And I would like to search text inside title or content having “[” or “]“.

What will be the SQL command to fetch such kind of data?

(edit: removed “efficient”)

(added)
As per “rsbarro”

I have tried and my findings are:

If I try for

SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE Title LIKE '%[%'

returns 0 row.

If I try for

SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE Title LIKE '%]%' 

returns number of rows.

Answer 1

The examples above are failing for like matching because LIKE offers a single character match option with [].

Any single character within the specified range ([a-f]) or set ([abcdef]).

To actually match a [, you will need to embed it in a pair of brackets

;
WITH DEMO (Title) AS
(
    SELECT 'Where are you [ I am here]'
    UNION ALL SELECT 'WHO ARE YOU'
    UNION ALL SELECT 'asdafasfa][asdfadfasdfasdfa'
)
SELECT 
    D.* 
FROM 
    DEMO D 
WHERE 
    D.Title LIKE '%[[]%' 
    OR D.Title LIKE '%[]]%'

Returns

Where are you [ I am here]
asdafasfa][asdfadfasdfasdfa