| title | Escape SQL Server Identifiers | Microsoft Docs |
|---|---|
| ms.custom | |
| ms.date | 06/13/2017 |
| ms.prod | sql-server-2014 |
| ms.reviewer | |
| ms.technology | scripting |
| ms.topic | conceptual |
| ms.assetid | 8a73e945-daa6-4e5d-93da-10f000f1f3a2 |
| author | stevestein |
| ms.author | sstein |
| manager | craigg |
You can often use the Windows PowerShell back-tick escape character (`) to escape characters that are allowed in [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] delimited identifiers but not Windows PowerShell path names. Some characters, however, cannot be escaped. For example, you cannot escape the colon character (:) in Windows PowerShell. Identifiers with that character must be encoded. Encoding is more reliable than escaping because encoding works for all characters.
The back-tick character (`) is usually on the key in the upper left of the keyboard, under the ESC key.
This is an example of escaping a # character:
cd SQLSERVER:\SQL\MyComputer\MyInstance\MyDatabase\MySchema\`#MyTempTable
This is an example of escaping the parenthesis when specifying (local) as a computer name:
Set-Location SQLSERVER:\SQL\`(local`)\DEFAULT
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