Netezza LIKE operator not finding subsequent backslashes

Question

Netezza is able to find records when using the LIKE operator when the first character contains a backslash character. But when subsequent characters contain a backslash character, it cannot. How can I correct this?

Result set has records:

SELECT * FROM TABLENAME WHERE PATH LIKE '\some_path%'

Result set has 0 records:

SELECT * FROM TABLENAME WHERE PATH LIKE '\some_path\%'

Answer 1

I had to avoid the escape character in the pattern matching string (after the LIKE), and append ESCAPE '' to avoid using the backslash as an escape character. In this example, I had _ characters in the literals, as well as \ characters.