ORA-01424

ORA-01424 missing or illegal character following the escape character

What causes an ORA-01424 error?

The character following the escape character in LIKE pattern is missing or not one of the escape character, ‘%’, or ‘_’.

How Xynomix can help

Remove the escape character or specify the missing character.

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