Handling special characters in prompt

Question

Hi,
I have a prompt on employees who should be active in a particular cycle of the year, which is also selected using a prompt. Now I use a presentation variable to capture the cycle and use it in the sql query of the employee prompt.
The problem is the cycle value has a "degree" symbol like "2° Cycle 2010" and so the employee prompt is throwing a syntax error - [nQSError: 27002] Near <°>: Syntax error
Could anyone please help me in handling this.
Thanks,
Ronnie.

Answer 1

This is the query I used for Employee prompt based on Cycle filter:
SELECT "Current Employee"."Employee Full Name" FROM "Customer" where "Time"."Cycle"=@{Ciclo}{valueof(CURRENT_CYCLE)} and "Objective Measures"."# of Objectives" > 0
This is the complete error message that I get:
State: HY000. Code: 10058. [NQODBC] [SQL_STATE: HY000] [nQSError: 10058] A general error has occurred. [nQSError: 27002] Near <°>: Syntax error [nQSError: 26012] . (HY000)
SQL Issued: SELECT "Current Employee"."Employee Full Name" FROM "Customer" where "Time"."Cycle"=2° Ciclo 2010 and "Objective Measures"."# of Objectives" > 0
Similar to this I tried out Employee prompt based on Year Filter which worked fine:
SELECT "Current Employee"."Employee Full Name" FROM "Customer" where "Time"."Year" =@{Anno}{'valueof(CURRENT_YEAR)'} and "Objective Measures"."# of Objectives" > 0