How to escape square brackets inside square brackets for field name

Question

I have some dynamic SQL that generates column names. A quick example might be something like this:

SELECT dbo.getSomething(123) [Eggs[scrambled] or Bacon[fri         


        

Answer 1

You can use the quotename function to see the proper escaping.

select quotename('Eggs[scrambled] or Bacon[fried]') 

Returns

[Eggs[scrambled]] or Bacon[fried]]]

So all closing square brackets need to be doubled up.