How do I escape a literal question mark ('?') in a JDBC prepared statement

Question

I\'d like to create a JDBC PreparedStatement like:

SELECT URL,LOCATE ( \'?\', URL ) pos FROM Links WHERE pageId=? ORDER BY pos ASC

Where the 1s

Answer 1

If it doesn't work with your JDBC driver you could bind it as a String ?,

ps.setString(1, "?");