# Escape character for SQL module
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/escape-character-for-sql-module/248352
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [September 11, 2020, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/escape-character-for-sql-module/248352 "2020-09-11T15:33:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Prashant\_Achari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prashant_Achari)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2020, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/escape-character-for-sql-module/248352/1 "2020-09-11T15:33:04Z")
I am using SQL module and user password has "#". I gave "" prior to hash but the same is not working. Can you pl help
error :oracle://GTXXX:July": invalid port ":July" after host
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### Author:  [@Prashant\_Achari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prashant_Achari)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/escape-character-for-sql-module/248352/2 "2020-09-11T15:54:01Z")
hosts: ["oracle://Elastic:July#2020@myoracledb.com:1521/test\_any?sslmode=disable"]
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### Author:  [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/escape-character-for-sql-module/248352/3 "2020-09-14T13:44:40Z")
Could you try using either `\#` or `%23` in place of the `#`?
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### Author:  [@Prashant\_Achari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prashant_Achari)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/escape-character-for-sql-module/248352/4 "2020-09-14T13:46:58Z")
I tried \ but gave same error will try with %23
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2020, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/escape-character-for-sql-module/248352/5 "2020-10-12T15:47:01Z")
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