How to enter special characters like “&” in oracle database? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Try 'Java_22 '||'&'||' Oracle_14'

Answer 2

There are 3 ways to do so :

1) Simply do SET DEFINE OFF; and then execute the insert stmt.

2) Simply by concatenating reserved word within single quotes and concatenating it. E.g. Select 'Java_22 ' || '& '|| ':' || ' Oracle_14' from dual --(:) is an optional.

3) By using CHR function along with concatenation. E.g. Select 'Java_22 ' || chr(38)||' Oracle_14' from dual

Hope this help !!!

Answer 3

you can simply escape & by following a dot. try this:

INSERT INTO STUDENT(name, class_id) VALUES ('Samantha', 'Java_22 &. Oracle_14');

Answer 4

Also you can use concat like this :D

Insert into Table Value(CONCAT('JAVA ',CONCAT('& ', 'Oracle'));

Answer 5

If you are in SQL*Plus or SQL Developer, you want to run

SQL> set define off;

before executing the SQL statement. That turns off the checking for substitution variables.

SET directives like this are instructions for the client tool (SQL*Plus or SQL Developer). They have session scope, so you would have to issue the directive every time you connect (you can put the directive in your client machine's glogin.sql if you want to change the default to have DEFINE set to OFF). There is no risk that you would impact any other user or session in the database.

Answer 6

In my case I need to insert a row with text 'Please dial *001 for help'. In this case the special character is an asterisk.

By using direct insert using sqlPlus it failed with error "SP2-0734: unknown command beginning ... "

I tryed set escape without success.

To achieve, I created a file insert.sql on filesystem with

insert into testtable (testtext) value ('Please dial *001 for help');

Then from sqlPlus I executed

@insert.sql

And row was inserted.