Querying special character like Percentage in Like operator

It is very tricky to search percentage character in some column. The below query will throw an error on execution:

SELECT LedgerName FROM LedgerMaster WHERE LedgerName LIKE '% %%' 

Instead of above query we had to use below query:


SELECT LedgerName FROM LedgerMaster WHERE LedgerName LIKE '% |%%' ESCAPE '|'

"ESCAPE" keyword are used within an Query to tell the SQL Server that the escaped part of the Query string should be handled differently. In above Query ESCAPE character is mentioned as '\' hence character after '|' is processed differently instead of normal there '%' character is search in "LedgerName" column of "LedgerMaster" table.