Splunk Search

How to query a field in DBXQuery that contains colon?

LearningGuy
Builder

Hello,
How to query a field in DBXQuery that contains colon?  
I ran the following query and got an error.  Thank you 
| dbxquery connection=visibility query="select abc:def from tableCompany"
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: syntax error at or near ":" Position:

I tried to put single quote
| dbxquery connection=visibility query="select 'abc:def' from tableCompany"
but it gave me the following result

?column?
abc:def
abc:def



Labels (2)
Tags (1)
0 Karma
1 Solution

etoombs
Path Finder

My bad. I didn't look to see what database you were using. You may need quotes around it = "abc:def". Since you're doing this inside a quoted string, you may need to escape them as \" in the string. 

View solution in original post

etoombs
Path Finder

My bad. I didn't look to see what database you were using. You may need quotes around it = "abc:def". Since you're doing this inside a quoted string, you may need to escape them as \" in the string. 

LearningGuy
Builder


Your suggestion worked. Thank you so much
| dbxquery connection=visibility query="select \"abc:def\" from tableCompany"

0 Karma

etoombs
Path Finder

Try brackets around the field name - [abc:def]

LearningGuy
Builder

Hello,
I put brackets around the field name [abc:def], but it still didn't work and got the following error
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: syntax error at or near "["

Thank you

0 Karma
Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

Modern way of developing distributed application using OTel

Recently, I had the opportunity to work on a complex microservice using Spring boot and Quarkus to develop a ...

Enterprise Security Content Update (ESCU) | New Releases

Last month, the Splunk Threat Research Team had 3 releases of new security content via the Enterprise Security ...

Archived Metrics Now Available for APAC and EMEA realms

We’re excited to announce the launch of Archived Metrics in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring for our customers ...