How do I escape a single quote in SQL Server?

Single quotes are escaped by doubling them up, just as you’ve shown us in your example. The following SQL illustrates this functionality. I tested it on SQL Server 2008:

DECLARE @my_table TABLE (
    [value] VARCHAR(200)
)

INSERT INTO @my_table VALUES ('hi, my name''s tim.')

SELECT * FROM @my_table

Results

value
==================
hi, my name's tim.

Related Posts:

  1. How do I escape a single quote in SQL Server?
  2. Selecting COUNT(*) with DISTINCT
  3. What is a stored procedure?
  4. Self Join to get employee manager name
  5. How do I UPDATE from a SELECT in SQL Server?
  6. SQL query to select dates between two dates
  7. When should I use CROSS APPLY over INNER JOIN?
  8. How can I do an UPDATE statement with JOIN in SQL Server?
  9. T-SQL split string based on delimiter
  10. IDENTITY_INSERT is set to OFF – How to turn it ON?
  11. Column name or number of supplied values does not match table definition
  12. SQL Server FOR EACH Loop
  13. DateTime2 vs DateTime in SQL Server
  14. How to parse XML data in SQL server table
  15. What is the equivalent of ‘describe table’ in SQL Server?
  16. Error converting data type varchar to float
  17. I want to use CASE statement to update some records in sql server 2005
  18. Conversion failed when converting the varchar value ‘simple, ‘ to data type int
  19. SELECT DISTINCT on one column
  20. Exclude a column using SELECT * [except columnA] FROM tableA?
  21. Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage) for row 1, column 4 (Year)
  22. TSQL PIVOT MULTIPLE COLUMNS
  23. SQL “select where not in subquery” returns no results
  24. Equivalent of Oracle’s RowID in SQL Server
  25. Is it possible to specify condition in Count()?
  26. SQL Server dynamic PIVOT query?
  27. Error converting data type varchar
  28. Temporary table in SQL server causing ‘ There is already an object named’ error
  29. I want to use CASE statement to update some records in sql server 2005
  30. How to calculate age (in years) based on Date of Birth and getDate()
  31. ORDER BY items must appear in the select list if SELECT DISTINCT is specified
  32. Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page including the primary key in an unpivot
  33. How can I group by date time column without taking time into consideration
  34. “select * into table” Will it work for inserting data into existing table
  35. SUM OVER PARTITION BY
  36. Update query using Subquery in Sql Server
  37. Varchar invalid for Sum operator
  38. Case in Select Statement
  39. Inserting multiple rows in a single SQL query? [duplicate]
  40. Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string while inserting datetime
  41. Insert Data Into Temp Table with Query
  42. error, string or binary data would be truncated when trying to insert
  43. How to create Temp table with SELECT * INTO tempTable FROM CTE Query
  44. T-SQL split string
  45. Must declare the scalar variable
  46. Rename column SQL Server 2008
  47. INSERT statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint – SQL Server
  48. Efficiently convert rows to columns in sql server
  49. Nested select statement in SQL Server
  50. INSERT statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint – SQL Server
  51. Drop a temporary table if it exists
  52. How Stuff and ‘For Xml Path’ work in SQL Server?
  53. SQL Server : Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type int
  54. Inserting data into a temporary table
  55. Why does NULL = NULL evaluate to false in SQL server
  56. CREATE VIEW must be the only statement in the batch
  57. Best way to do nested case statement logic in SQL Server
  58. What is the meaning of the prefix N in T-SQL statements and when should I use it?
  59. The multi-part identifier could not be bound
  60. Get day of week in SQL Server 2005/2008
  61. Query error with ambiguous column name in SQL
  62. Each GROUP BY expression must contain at least one column that is not an outer reference
  63. incorrect syntax error CREATE VIEW must be the only statement in the batch
  64. Find all tables containing column with specified name – MS SQL Server
  65. SQL Server Insert if not exists
  66. SQL Server: Invalid Column Name
  67. How to group by month from Date field using sql
  68. The ALTER TABLE statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint
  69. Is there a combination of “LIKE” and “IN” in SQL?
  70. SQL Server reports ‘Invalid column name’, but the column is present and the query works through management studio
  71. SQL Server IF NOT EXISTS Usage?
  72. String or binary data would be truncated. The statement has been terminated
  73. How to concatenate text from multiple rows into a single text string in SQL Server
  74. Count(*) vs Count(1) – SQL Server
  75. What is the Oracle equivalent of SQL Server’s IsNull() function?
  76. What represents a double in sql server?
  77. Determine ROW that caused “unexpected end of file” error in BULK INSERT?
  78. Determine ROW that caused “unexpected end of file” error in BULK INSERT?
  79. Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error ‘80004005’
  80. ListAGG in SQLSERVER
  81. Is there a Max function in SQL Server that takes two values like Math.Max in .NET?
  82. Subtract one day from datetime
  83. Get current year in TSQL
  84. SQL: IF clause within WHERE clause
  85. Replacing NULL with 0 in a SQL server query
  86. SQL Server: Make all UPPER case to Proper Case/Title Case
  87. How do I query for all dates greater than a certain date in SQL Server?
  88. Backup a single table with its data from a database in sql server 2008
  89. How to write a foreach in SQL Server?
  90. SQL Server “cannot perform an aggregate function on an expression containing an aggregate or a subquery”, but Sybase can
  91. Get everything after and before certain character in SQL Server
  92. Cannot create an instance of OLE DB provider Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 for linked server null
  93. What are database constraints?
  94. Inner Joining three tables
  95. Append table to an existing one: SQL Server
  96. SQL Server – An expression of non-boolean type specified in a context where a condition is expected, near ‘RETURN’
  97. Filter data based on date in sql
  98. CASE IN statement with multiple values
  99. Cannot insert explicit value for identity column in table ‘table’ when IDENTITY_INSERT is set to OFF
  100. How to dump a Microsoft SQL Server database to a SQL script?

Leave a Comment