MSSQL problems with forward slash in Domain\Username url

[frostspanner]

From what I can tell, connecting with Windows Authentication should require a url like sqlserver://domain\user@server . . ., but I'm unable to get this to work in my neovim config. When I open dbee there is an error saying the url sqlserver://domain\\user@server (note the extra forward slash) could not be parsed. I've tried writing the url several ways in the lua config, but all attempts end up with an extra forward slash or a broken neovim config due to invalid escape character. Is there any way to make this work?

[zacharyeller13]

I know this is a year and a half later, but I was just having this issue myself today. RayJameson's related discussion comment here should help.

You basically need to escape/url-encode the connection string and then it should work. So the backslash '\' will become '%5C': sqlserver://domain%5Cuser@server.