Re: [GENERAL] Problem with apostrophe

On Wed, 17 Jun 1998 eric@gateway.ctlno.com wrote:

> Is there any way of having an apostrophe in a data field?
> It is a problem because the apostrophe is the same character as the single
> quote, so the database gets a parser error when a name such as "O'Brian"
> is entered.
>
> There must be a work-around, but I can not find any solution.
>
> thank you for your help
You may use doubble apostrophe as in O''Brian to match O'Brian this is
SQL92.
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