From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Wed Apr 13 07:02:19 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3DC2J8Q004338 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 07:02:19 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3DC2Iem004334 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 07:02:18 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id AF5AA959BD; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 06:00:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11261-10; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 06:00:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 34FFC957D2; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 06:00:07 -0500 (EST) From: "John Dunn" To: Subject: case insensitive select Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:00:31 +0100 Message-ID: <004a01c54018$03b42ea0$3e04050a@johnman> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-archive-position: 18415 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: jdunn@sefas.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: jdunn@sefas.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: I am doing a slect on 15 million rows of data. I want to do a case insensitive serach, but using the TO_UPPER clause just slows performance dramatically. Any other way to do it? -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l