 <p>This question has not answer.</p> <p>You try to match searching of content with backslash on names of columns.</p> <p>Your (a bit general) query</p> <pre><code>SELECT * FROM tableName WHERE columnName LIKE '%\\%' </code></pre> <p>will give you any result if content of any column will contain backslash. In this case your query is correct. But you cannot match name of any column.</p> <p>I looked into some books I have and all they say the same: this will select all <em>records</em> written in column of chosen name that are containing backslash. But columns have to be chosen exactly (they cannot be selected by name with using of SQL query).</p>