Escapes data for use in a MySQL query

This is just a handy shortcut for $wpdb->escape(), for completeness’ sake

Signature

esc_sql( $sql )
sql
 (string) Unescaped SQL data

Return

(string) The cleaned $sql

Source

function esc_sql( $sql ) {
	global $wpdb;
	return $wpdb->escape( $sql );
}
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