How to select a column in SQL Server with a special character in the column name?

Question

I have a table contain the '%' in the column title, and this cause problem when I do the select statement on that column (Find below for more details). Does anyone know how can I select that column by not keeping the original column title?

Example:

Table1
name  ref_no  tot_sales  %Phone
-------------------------------
Alan  1       1          100%
amy   2       1          50%
ken   3       4          30%

Script:

Select %Phone From Table1

Error Message :

Incorrect syntax near phone

Solution

You may want to wrap your column name in square brackets to have your identifier delimited:

SELECT [%Phone] FROM Table1

If the QUOTED_IDENTIFIER option is set to ON, you can also use ANSI-SQL compliant double quotation marks to delimit identifiers:

SELECT "%Phone" FROM Table1

Comments

[OMG Ponies]

...and communicate to others never to use unusual characters for table or column names.