diff --git a/projects/samskivert/src/java/com/samskivert/jdbc/JDBCUtil.java b/projects/samskivert/src/java/com/samskivert/jdbc/JDBCUtil.java
index c1528902..0e426f34 100644
--- a/projects/samskivert/src/java/com/samskivert/jdbc/JDBCUtil.java
+++ b/projects/samskivert/src/java/com/samskivert/jdbc/JDBCUtil.java
@@ -127,6 +127,15 @@ public class JDBCUtil
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Escapes any single quotes in the supplied text and wraps it in
+     * single quotes to make it safe for embedding into a database query.
+     */
+    public static String escape (String text)
+    {
+        return "'" + StringUtil.replace(text, "'", "\\'") + ",";
+    }
+
     /**
      * Many databases simply fail to handle Unicode text properly and this
      * routine provides a common workaround which is to represent a UTF-8