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theremin thereminOG 2002

How do you represent an apostrophe, because say there's something like theremin's. I obviously wouldn't be able to do this:

WHERE POSSESSION = 'theremin's'

....So what would I type to represent where an apostrophe is?

iwz iwz

good question. it's called string escaping.

read about it here: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/String_syntax.html

and, basically it would be 'theremin\'s'

just put a \ in front of the '

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