How to Escape Quotes in MySQL

Sometimes we might need to put quotes inside the text. We can do it in the following two ways.

Method 1: Enclose Them in the Opposite Set

When a text is enclosed in single quotes then the second single quote has a special meaning and serves as the delimeter for the text. However enclosing the text in double quotes removes the special meaning of single quotes and treats them as normal characters. We can enclose single quotes in double quotes and vice versa. In the following example, we will put single quotes around a value.

Query:

-- Using double quotes to include a single quote in a string
SELECT " 'Name' " FROM customer;

Output:

Explanation: Thus enclosing in double quotes helps to escape single quotes.

Method 2: Write Them Twice Consecutively

In some cases, when you cannot use double quotes, you can escape single quotes inside single quotes by writing them along with each other. Every single quote escapes the next one (except the border ones).
Query:

SELECT '''Name' FROM customer;

Output:

Explanation: As you can see, we enclosed single quotes inside single quotes by writing them consecutively.

MySQL is an open–source relational database management system (RDBMS) that is widely used for managing and organizing structured data. MySQL is designed to run on various operating systems, including Windows, Linux, macOS, and others, providing flexibility in deployment. It can handle databases of different sizes and scales well, making it suitable for both small-scale projects and large enterprise-level applications. Strings can be formed by enclosing text in quotes. However in a case when quotes are themselves required in a string, then we need to escape them. In this article, we are going to see how we can escape a single quote in MySQL using various techniques and methods examples, and so on.