How to retrieve "&" from database field.

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One of my database table field insert "&" sign like PIA&R009.when I retrieve the data using select statement its showing PI R009. How can I handle this. Thanks in advance.

Posted 12-Nov-15 0:05am

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F-ES Sitecore 12-Nov-15 6:18am

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2015-11-12T00:18:00

That depends - I don't have any problem here, but it's possible that it's not SQL at all, but the environment you are displaying the data in.
For a website, HTML uses "&" as a "special character" in the same way that C-like languages use "\" - it introduces a sequence which makes up a single character. So if you are sending the raw "&" character to a client browser, it's likely being "swallowed" there. In that case, replace it with

& amp ;

(without the spaces) and it should be fine.

But start with your database: check the column definition (NVARCHAR should be fine regardless, but VARCHAR may cause a conversion problem as the former is UNICODE and the latter isn't - not likely, but it's worth a look). Then examine the column content and make sure that it genuinely is an "&" character rather than some other Unicode symbol that looks like it in the correct font.