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Asked: 2026-05-13T02:11:58+00:00

[ is not classed a unicode character http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters (my guess) as to why this

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“[” is not classed a unicode character http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters (my guess) as to why this wouldn’t work: 

declare @v nvarchar(255)
set @v =  '[x]825' 
select 1 
where  @v like  '[x]825'
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  1. Editorial Team

    [] defines a range of characters for a pattern match. It has special meaning in a LIKE statement. Here’s the documentation for it.

    If you’re looking for those characters explicitly, you’ll need to escape them, like this:

    declare @v nvarchar(255)
set @v =  '[x]825' 
select 1 
where  @v LIKE '![x]825' 
       ESCAPE '!'
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