Avoid seeing & as a variable

I am trying to do a select statement from within Visual Basic where my column data has an & stored in it. When I perform this statement it returns no rows because it expected a substitution for the &.
Select * from table where column = 'Sanford & Son'
Does anyone know how to avoid this in VB? I've tried the set scan off and set define ? functions but it doesn't let me execute these statements from VB.

Tim,
Well doing SET DEFINE OFF; should do the trick, and you should be able to excecute that from VB doing passthrough or ExecSQL where it doesn't syntax check the sql you trying to run. Secondly maybe your getting no rows back since the data might be case sensative, you could try ...
Select * from table where upper(trim(column)) = upper(trim('Sanford & Son'))
maybe that might get your data (though a table scan will occur). Overall though doing SET DEFINE OFF should work.
I've dfone many VB applications but I always made the connections PASSTHROUGH so the ODBC Jet engine doesn't try to syntax check/interpret the pl/sql I'm writting, hence the & character, and any code for that matter is left untouched and goes directly to Oracle.
Thanks,
Tyler

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