AzureTipsAndTricks/blog/tip67.md

type	title	excerpt	tags	date
post	Tip 67 - Querying documents properties with special characters in Cosmos DB	Learn how to query documents properties with special characters in Cosmos DB	Databases	2017-12-12 17:00:00

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Querying documents properties with special characters in Cosmos DB

I was working with Cosmos DB yesterday and hit the following snag that I couldn't query my document that had special characters in it. Such is an example:

Notice the "$type": "mytype", has a $ in it.

If you head over to Query Explorer and try to query it using...

SELECT *
FROM testing t
WHERE t.$type = 'mytype'

... then you'll see the following error:

I was able to fix this by wrapping the property inside [] such as...

SELECT *
FROM testing t
WHERE t["$type"] = 'mytype'

Now my query returned properly