How to escape a string for use with the LIKE operator in SQL Server?

Question

I am looking for something that works in SQL Server similar to the @ symbol in c# which causes a string to be taken as it\'s literal. Eg:

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Answer 1

In TSQL, you can wrap the % and _ characters in brackets like so [%] [_] this tells SQL to treat them as literals.

I have tested and verified this works in SQL Server 7.0, 2000, and 2005.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa933232(SQL.80).aspx