Search % symbol in a column of a table

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Hello,
My column consists of a special character % in some of records.... Now i want an SQl query to list out the records which cotains % symbol

NOTE: I need a query which will be searched with like operator

Posted 17-Jul-14 20:03pm

jing567

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Solution 6

hi

please try this

suppose column contains value as
1234%
11
121
1
and so on...........

and you need to find the value which contain % in that value.
plz try this query

SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE fieldname LIKE ‘%1234[%]%’

plz mark as complete if t helps you

Posted 17-Jul-14 20:42pm

asbis

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-17T20:11:00

Solution 2

Try:

SQL

SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE dataCol LIKE '%[%]%'

Posted 17-Jul-14 20:11pm

OriginalGriff

Madhu Nair · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-17T20:13:00

Solution 3

Below Query will give you all students having % character in their name

select * from Student WHERE CHARINDEX('%',[Student Name],0)>1

Hope this helps

Posted 17-Jul-14 20:13pm

Madhu Nair

ArunRajendra · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-17T20:09:00

Solution 1

Use [%]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7191449/how-do-i-escape-a-percentage-sign-in-t-sql[^]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7736956/query-to-find-columns-that-end-with-percent-symbol[^]

Posted 17-Jul-14 20:09pm

ArunRajendra

ErBhati · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-17T20:35:00

Solution 4

try this

SQL

select x from users
where columnToBeSearched like '%[%]%' OR
  otherColumnToBeSearched like '%[%]%'

or use this

SQL

SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE COLUMN_NAME LIKE '%[^a-zA-Z0-9]%'

Posted 17-Jul-14 20:35pm

ErBhati

Updated 17-Jul-14 20:36pm

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asbis · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-17T20:41:00

hi

please try this.may It helps you

suppose column contains value as
1234%
11
121
1
and so on...........

and you need to find the value which contain % in that value.
plz try this query

SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE fieldname LIKE ‘%1234[%]%’

plz mark as complete if t helps you