Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 11/09/06 09:01

(othellomy@yahoo.com) writes:
> Nevermind. Following worked:
> SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
> insert mytable values (3,"'",getdate())


Yes, that's one way to do it. But it will not always work, because the
setting QUOTED_IDENTIFIER must be ON in some situations.

The standard way to do it is do double the string delimiter:

insert mytable values (3, '''', getdate())

Standard SQL only recognizes ' as a string delimiter. " is used to delimiter
identifiers with "funny" characters in them, like space. (Although with SQL
Server you normally use [] in this case.)

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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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