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Old 10-06-2006
& in SQL query
I have a script that looks for all jobs that contain a particular calendar.

Some of the calendars have '&' in them and sql freaks out when it encounters that.. is there a way around this?

I have tried:

select job_name from job where run_calendar='1&15dom'
select job_name from job where run_calendar='1\&15dom'


Any help is much appreciated...

Linda
# 2  
Old 10-06-2006
Which database is it? MySQL does not seem to have this problem.
# 3  
Old 10-06-2006
Are you running this in SQL Plus. & is a substitution variable in Oracle. The only way to prevent substitution in SQL Plus is by setting define off.

Run SET DEFINE OFF before running the SQL command
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Old 10-09-2006
Thanks!

I did a "set escape \" in sqlplus and then I was able to backslash the literal...
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