Put a blackslash (\) in front of the single quote (') should fix your problem.
For you particular example,
the quer should look like: select * from name_table where name like '%\'%'.
-- Laiwu
"Doshi, Gunjan" wrote:
> Friends:
>
> My Servlet queries the DB2 database table. However some entries in the
> column have ' as its entries. I want to search for all of them
>
> Example: O' Peter. I am talking of the single quote ' in the name.
>
> So when I say select * from name_table where name like '%'%'
>
> It is wrong because single quotes because %'% is illegal within ' '. How do
> I do it.
>
> Gunjan
>
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