How to fix the Oracle error ORA-01424: missing or illegal character following the escape character?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-01424: missing or illegal character following the escape character with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-01424: missing or illegal character following the escape character

Reason for the Error ORA-01424: missing or illegal character following the escape character

The character following the escape character in LIKE pattern is missing or not one of the escape character, ‘%’, or ‘_’.

How to fix the Error ORA-01424: missing or illegal character following the escape character ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

Remove the escape character or specify the missing character.