diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/lib/__tests__/editor/queryEditorStringMouseSelection.spec.ts b/apps/desktop/src/lib/__tests__/editor/queryEditorStringMouseSelection.spec.ts
index da8b797d07..514f008b03 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/lib/__tests__/editor/queryEditorStringMouseSelection.spec.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/lib/__tests__/editor/queryEditorStringMouseSelection.spec.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { EditorSelection, EditorState } from "@codemirror/state";
 import type { EditorView, ViewUpdate } from "@codemirror/view";
 import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
 import { createQueryEditorStringMouseSelection } from "@/lib/editor/queryEditorStringMouseSelection";
-import { sqlStringContentRangeAt, type SqlSemanticSelectionOptions } from "@/lib/editor/sqlSemanticSelectionRanges";
+import { sqlStringContentRangeAt, trimSqlStringWildcardBoundaries, type SqlSemanticSelectionOptions } from "@/lib/editor/sqlSemanticSelectionRanges";
 
 function eventAt(position: number, assoc: -1 | 1 = 1, overrides: Partial<MouseEvent> = {}): MouseEvent {
   return {
@@ -136,17 +136,38 @@ describe("query editor SQL string mouse selection", () => {
     expect(reverse?.anchor).toBeGreaterThan(reverse?.head ?? Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY);
   });
 
-  it("maps the start selection and semantic analysis across document changes", () => {
-    const doc = "select 'alpha-beta'";
-    const state = EditorState.create({ doc, selection: EditorSelection.cursor(doc.length) });
-    const fixture = fakeView(state);
-    const start = eventAt(doc.indexOf("alpha"));
-    const style = createQueryEditorStringMouseSelection(fixture.view, start);
-    const transaction = state.update({ changes: { from: 0, insert: "-- " } });
-    fixture.setState(transaction.state);
-    style?.update({ docChanged: true, changes: transaction.changes, startState: state, state: transaction.state, view: fixture.view } as ViewUpdate);
+  it("skips leading and trailing LIKE wildcards when double-clicking a string", () => {
+    const cases: Array<{ doc: string; needle: string; expected: string }> = [
+      { doc: "select '%识别通配符%'", needle: "识别通配符", expected: "识别通配符" },
+      { doc: "select 'name' like '%foo%'", needle: "foo", expected: "foo" },
+      { doc: "select '%leading'", needle: "leading", expected: "leading" },
+      { doc: "select 'trailing_'", needle: "trailing", expected: "trailing" },
+      { doc: "select '__both__'", needle: "both", expected: "both" },
+      { doc: "select '%%multi%%'", needle: "multi", expected: "multi" },
+    ];
 
-    const selection = style?.get(eventAt(doc.indexOf("alpha") + 3), false, false);
-    expect(selection && transaction.state.sliceDoc(selection.main.from, selection.main.to)).toBe("alpha-beta");
+    for (const value of cases) {
+      const state = EditorState.create({ doc: value.doc });
+      const start = eventAt(value.doc.indexOf(value.needle));
+      const selection = createQueryEditorStringMouseSelection(fakeView(state).view, start)?.get(start, false, false);
+      expect(selection && value.doc.slice(selection.main.from, selection.main.to)).toBe(value.expected);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("keeps a wildcard-only string intact so the double click still selects something", () => {
+    const doc = "select '%%'";
+    const state = EditorState.create({ doc });
+    const start = eventAt(doc.indexOf("%%") + 1);
+    const selection = createQueryEditorStringMouseSelection(fakeView(state).view, start)?.get(start, false, false);
+    expect(selection && doc.slice(selection.main.from, selection.main.to)).toBe("%%");
+  });
+
+  it("trimSqlStringWildcardBoundaries shrinks past boundary wildcards only", () => {
+    const doc = "%a_b%";
+    expect(trimSqlStringWildcardBoundaries(doc, { from: 0, to: doc.length })).toEqual({ from: 1, to: 4 });
+    // Inner underscore/percent are preserved; only the boundaries are trimmed.
+    expect(doc.slice(1, 4)).toBe("a_b");
+    // A range with no boundary wildcards is returned unchanged.
+    expect(trimSqlStringWildcardBoundaries("abc", { from: 0, to: 3 })).toEqual({ from: 0, to: 3 });
   });
 });
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/lib/editor/queryEditorStringMouseSelection.ts b/apps/desktop/src/lib/editor/queryEditorStringMouseSelection.ts
index a614bbd508..799b7d3532 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/lib/editor/queryEditorStringMouseSelection.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/lib/editor/queryEditorStringMouseSelection.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { EditorSelection, findClusterBreak, type EditorState, type SelectionRange } from "@codemirror/state";
 import type { EditorView, MouseSelectionStyle, ViewUpdate } from "@codemirror/view";
-import { analyzeSqlSemanticSelectionRanges, sqlStringContentRangeAt, type SqlSemanticSelectionAnalysis, type SqlSemanticSelectionOptions } from "@/lib/editor/sqlSemanticSelectionRanges";
+import { analyzeSqlSemanticSelectionRanges, sqlStringContentRangeAt, trimSqlStringWildcardBoundaries, type SqlSemanticSelectionAnalysis, type SqlSemanticSelectionOptions } from "@/lib/editor/sqlSemanticSelectionRanges";
 
 export interface QueryEditorStringMouseSelectionOptions extends SqlSemanticSelectionOptions {
   language?: "sql" | "text";
@@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ function groupAt(state: EditorState, position: PointerPosition): SelectionRange
 
 function semanticOrDefaultRange(state: EditorState, position: PointerPosition, options: SqlSemanticSelectionOptions, analysis: SqlSemanticSelectionAnalysis): SelectionRange {
   const semantic = sqlStringContentRangeAt(state.doc.toString(), position.pos, position.assoc, options, analysis);
-  return semantic ? EditorSelection.range(semantic.from, semantic.to) : groupAt(state, position);
+  if (!semantic) return groupAt(state, position);
+  const trimmed = trimSqlStringWildcardBoundaries(state.doc.toString(), semantic);
+  return EditorSelection.range(trimmed.from, trimmed.to);
 }
 
 export function createQueryEditorStringMouseSelection(view: EditorView, event: MouseEvent, options: QueryEditorStringMouseSelectionOptions = {}): MouseSelectionStyle | null {
@@ -51,7 +53,8 @@ export function createQueryEditorStringMouseSelection(view: EditorView, event: M
   const semantic = sqlStringContentRangeAt(view.state.doc.toString(), start.pos, start.assoc, options, analysis);
   if (!semantic) return null;
 
-  let startRange = EditorSelection.range(semantic.from, semantic.to);
+  const trimmed = trimSqlStringWildcardBoundaries(view.state.doc.toString(), semantic);
+  let startRange = EditorSelection.range(trimmed.from, trimmed.to);
   let startSelection = view.state.selection;
   return {
     update(update: ViewUpdate) {
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/lib/editor/sqlSemanticSelectionRanges.ts b/apps/desktop/src/lib/editor/sqlSemanticSelectionRanges.ts
index 3bd59a23b3..abc6a857eb 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/lib/editor/sqlSemanticSelectionRanges.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/lib/editor/sqlSemanticSelectionRanges.ts
@@ -420,6 +420,22 @@ export function sqlStringContentRangeAt(doc: string, position: number, assoc: -1
   return range && range.from <= character && character < range.to ? range : null;
 }
 
+// SQL LIKE wildcards that a double-click on a string literal should skip so the
+// selection lands on the searchable word instead of `%…%`/`_…_` (issue #8129).
+const SQL_STRING_WILDCARD_CHARACTERS = new Set(["%", "_"]);
+
+// Shrinks a string-content range past leading/trailing LIKE wildcards. Used only
+// by the double-click selection path, not the semantic expand-selection index, so
+// widening still reaches the full quoted content. Returns the original range when
+// it has no wildcard boundary or is entirely wildcards (nothing meaningful left).
+export function trimSqlStringWildcardBoundaries(doc: string, range: SemanticSelectionRange): SemanticSelectionRange {
+  let from = range.from;
+  let to = range.to;
+  while (from < to && SQL_STRING_WILDCARD_CHARACTERS.has(doc[from] ?? "")) from += 1;
+  while (to > from && SQL_STRING_WILDCARD_CHARACTERS.has(doc[to - 1] ?? "")) to -= 1;
+  return from < to ? { from, to } : range;
+}
+
 function findStatement(context: SemanticSelectionContext, analysis: SqlSemanticSelectionAnalysis): PreparedStatementWindow | undefined {
   let low = 0;
   let high = analysis.statements.length;