SQL Escape ' '

Question

I am trying to run a query in SQL 2008 by doing:

@query varchar(max)

SET @query = \'SELECT * FROM Table WHERE [Name] = \' \'Karl\' \' \'

EXEC(@query)
         


        

Answer 1

A double single ('') quote will act like a single single quote when inside a string literal.

Have you tried using a variable?

declare @karl_name varchar(10);
set @karl_name = '''Karl''';

SELECT * FROM Table WHERE [Name] = @karl_name