Storing ampersand in database

Question

I am currently working with an sql 2008 database. Many of the entries have ampersands stored thusly \'Arts & Culture\' Should we be storing the escaped version in the databa

Answer 1

SQL Server will store Arts & Culture just fine, into either a VARCHAR(x) or a NVARCHAR(x) (Unicode-variant - 2 bytes per character) field.

From a database point of view, there's absolutely no need or no point in escaping anything.