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Configuring Hybrid Data Pipeline for JDBC : SQL escape sequences : LIKE escape character sequence for wildcards
  

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LIKE escape character sequence for wildcards

You can specify the character to be used to escape wildcard characters (% and _, for example) in LIKE clauses.

Syntax

{escape 'escape-character'}
where:
escape-character
is the character used to escape the wildcard character.

Example

The following SQL statement specifies that an asterisk (*) be used as the escape character in the LIKE clause for the wildcard character %:
SELECT col1 FROM table1 WHERE col1 LIKE '*%%' {escape '*'}