Special characters in strings

Hi all,
I'm trying to run a query to grab strings from a table that have what looks like underscores in the string. Here's an example A826001___1001. But when I put a like condition in my where clause "memb_name like '%_%'" it returns all rows including records without underscores. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks

The underscore is a wildcard character just like the % symbol except it represents EXACTLY 1 character. You need to escape the underscore:
where memb_name like '%\_%' ESCAPE '\'

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see the attached example.
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